Test 6 · ★★ · Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of…

«my toddler cousin's got flat feet, he's gonna need special shoes forever» What is fairest to say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: toddler cousin, cousin · What happens: get, be, say · To what, where: flat feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 359 «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cousin	nmod:poss
3	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	compound
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 got	aux
6	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 fairest	parataxis
7	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feet	amod
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 need	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 need	cop
12	gonna	gonna	PART	_	13 need	mark
13	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 got	parataxis
14	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shoes	amod
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 need	obj
16	forever	forever	ADV	_	13 need	advmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 fairest	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fairest	cop
20	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
21	to	to	PART	_	22 say	mark
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fairest	acl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 fairest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	my toddler cousin	flat feet		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus
2	is in a quote	present	cousin		forever, need property	tree rules
3	is	present			fair property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Toddlers usually have flat feet and grow arches later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feet	amod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grow	cc
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
8	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grow	obj
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Toddlers	flat feet				usually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
2	grow	present	Toddlers not said here	arches				late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arch=Theme

Option 2

His feet will never grow arches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	future	His feet	arches					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arch=Theme

Option 3

He needs surgery at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	surgery	surgery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 needs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	He	surgery					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot surgery=Theme

Option 4

Flat feet in toddlers are always a disease that needs a doctor straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feet	amod
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 disease	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 toddlers	case
4	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feet	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 disease	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 disease	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 disease	det
8	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 needs	nsubj
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 disease	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 doctor	det
12	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	obj
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 away	advmod
14	away	away	ADV	_	10 needs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Flat feet in toddlers	a disease				always property	tree rules
2	need	present	a disease	a doctor				away property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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