Test 4 · Sleep and dreams in people

Why might it be dangerous if your muscles worked during a dream?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, muscles · What happens: be, work

This is test 4 of lesson 363 «Sleep and dreams in people» 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	5 dangerous	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dangerous	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 dangerous	cop
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 worked	advcl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 worked	mark
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 muscles	nmod:poss
8	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 worked	nsubj
9	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	during	during	ADP	_	12 dream	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dream	det
12	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 worked	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 worked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	it					dangerous property	tree rules
2	work	past	your muscles				during a dream		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

You would grow too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	You					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Your dreams would stop

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 dreams	nmod:poss
2	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Your dreams						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	dream		Your						nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You could act out the dream and hurt yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 act	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 act	aux
3	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 act	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dream	det
6	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 act	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hurt	cc
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 act	conj
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act out	could	You	the dream					vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent dream=Eventuality
2	hurt	infinitive	You not said here	yourself					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Patient

Option 4

You would sleep far too deeply and might never wake up again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sleep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 sleep	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 deeply	advmod
6	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wake	cc
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 wake	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 wake	advmod
10	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sleep	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 wake	compound:prt
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 wake	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	would	You					far property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not wake up	might	You not said here				again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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