Test 10 · ★ · Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stro…

«legs ache every night after footie, but only the left knee is swollen and I'm limping» What is the right thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: legs, left knee, I · What happens: ache, be, limp, do · To what, where: right thing

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 361 «Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger» 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	_	3 ache	punct
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ache	nsubj
3	ache	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ache	obl:unmarked
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 footie	case
7	footie	footie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ache	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swollen	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 swollen	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	13 knee	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 knee	det
12	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 knee	amod
13	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swollen	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 swollen	cop
15	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ache	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 limping	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 limping	nsubj
18	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 limping	aux
19	limping	limp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 swollen	conj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 limping	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 thing	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 thing	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thing	det
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thing	amod
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 limping	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 thing	acl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ache	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ache in a quote	present	legs		after footie; night		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is in a quote	present	the left knee			swollen property	tree rules
3	limp in a quote	present · progressive	I				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present		the right thing			tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn act-114-1 «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

Drink milk and it will be fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drink	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fine	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fine	expl
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Drink	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	imperative	you not said here	milk					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
2	is	future	you not said here					fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a grown-up and see a doctor, as swelling and a limp are not growing pains

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 up	det
3	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 up	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 see	cc
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 doctor	det
9	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 swelling	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 swelling	case
12	swelling	swelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 growing	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 limp	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 limp	det
15	limp	limp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swelling	conj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 growing	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 growing	advmod
18	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tell	ccomp
19	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 growing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a grown up	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent up=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	a doctor	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus
3	not grow	present · progressive	swelling and a limp	pains	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pain=Theme

Option 3

Run more to make the swelling go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Run	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Run	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swelling	det
6	swelling	swelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here	more	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Trajectory
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	the swelling	tree rules
3	go	infinitive	the swelling not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Ignore it, it is only growing pains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 growing	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 growing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 growing	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 growing	advmod
7	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ignore	parataxis
8	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 growing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	grow	present · progressive	it	pains					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pain=Theme

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