Test 7 · ★★ · Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of…
An X-ray of a 12-year-old shows dark lines near the ends of the leg bones. What are they?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: X ray, lines · What happens: show, ray, be · To what, where: dark lines, ends, 12-year-old
This is test 7 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: An X-ray of a 12-year-old shows dark lines near the ends of the leg bones.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ray | det |
| 2 | X | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ray | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 X | punct |
| 4 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shows | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 12-year-old | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 12-year-old | det |
| 7 | 12-year-old | 12-year-old | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 4 ray | nmod |
| 8 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lines | amod |
| 10 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shows | obj |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 ends | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ends | det |
| 13 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lines | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bones | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bones | det |
| 16 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bones | compound |
| 17 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ends | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a X ray of a 12-year-old | dark lines | near the ends of the leg bones | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent line=Recipient | |||
| 2 | ray | a 12-year-old | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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.
Sentence 2: What are they?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | lines = line | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Shadows from the X-ray machine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 machine | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 machine | det |
| 4 | X | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ray | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 X | punct |
| 6 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 machine | compound |
| 7 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shadows | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Gaps where bones are missing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 missing | nsubj |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 bones | advmod |
| 3 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Gaps | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 missing | cop |
| 5 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Gaps and bones | missing property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Growth plates where the bones are still growing longer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plates | compound |
| 2 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 growing | nsubj |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 growing | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bones | det |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 growing | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 growing | aux |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 growing | advmod |
| 8 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 growing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present · progressive | Growth plates | still | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Cracks from a fall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 fall | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fall | det |
| 4 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cracks | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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