Test 5 · ★★★ · Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows…

What would happen if your triceps stopped working but your biceps still worked?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: triceps, biceps · What happens: happen, stop, work

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 360 «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 stopped	mark
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 triceps	nmod:poss
6	triceps	triceps	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stopped	nsubj
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stopped	xcomp
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 worked	cc
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 biceps	nmod:poss
11	biceps	biceps	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 worked	nsubj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 worked	advmod
13	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	your triceps		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	work	gerund	your triceps not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	work	participle	your biceps	still	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Your arm would bend backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 arm	nmod:poss
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bend	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bend	aux
4	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	4 bend	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	would	Your arm					backwards property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

You could not bend it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 bend	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bend	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bend	advmod
4	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bend	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bend	could	You	it		all			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme at all=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You could bend your arm but could not straighten it with force

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 bend	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bend	aux
3	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arm	nmod:poss
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bend	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 straighten	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 straighten	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 straighten	advmod
9	straighten	straighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bend	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 straighten	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 force	case
12	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 straighten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	could	You	your arm					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent arm=Material
2	not straighten	could	You not said here	arm				with force	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with force=Instrument

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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