Test 9 · ★★ · Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of…

Why does the heel bone need to be the biggest bone of the foot?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: heel bone · What happens: need, be · To what, where: biggest bone

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 need	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bone	det
4	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bone	compound
5	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	11 bone	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 bone	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bone	det
10	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 bone	amod
11	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 foot	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 foot	det
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bone	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	the heel bone						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	to-infinitive		the biggest bone				of the foot	tree rules

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

It holds all the toes together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 holds	nsubj
2	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 toes	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 toes	det
5	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 holds	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	2 holds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	It	all toes				together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It takes the shock of every step and anchors the Achilles tendon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shock	det
4	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 step	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 step	det
7	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shock	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 anchors	cc
9	anchors	anchor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tendon	det
11	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tendon	compound
12	tendon	tendon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anchors	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	present	It	the shock of every step	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme
2	anchor	present		the Achilles tendon	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tendon=Patient
3	shock			every step	nom shock «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

It is the only foot bone with marrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bone	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bone	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bone	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bone	amod
5	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bone	compound
6	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 marrow	case
8	marrow	marrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the only foot bone				with marrow	tree rules

Option 4

It has to store fat for walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 store	mark
4	store	store	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	xcomp
5	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 store	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 walking	case
7	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 store	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It						tree rules
2	store	to-infinitive		fat				for walking	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme

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