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Test 4 · ★ · The heart and blood

Before Harvey, people thought the liver made new blood all day. Why could that not be true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: people, liver · What happens: think, make, not be · To what, where: new blood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 65 «The heart and blood» 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: Before Harvey, people thought the liver made new blood all day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	ADP	_	2 Harvey	case
2	Harvey	Harvey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Harvey	punct
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 liver	det
7	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	ccomp
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 blood	amod
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl:unmarked
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	people				before Harvey		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	past	the liver	new blood			day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blood=Product

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: Why could that not be true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 true	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 true	aux
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 true	mark
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 true	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 true	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	could						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Blood never moves at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moves	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 moves	advmod
3	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	present	Blood			all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

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

The heart pumps more blood in an hour than food could ever make

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heart	det
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pumps	nsubj
3	pumps	pump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 blood	amod
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pumps	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hour	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pumps	obl
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 make	mark
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 make	advmod
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pumps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pump	present	the heart	more blood			hour		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme
2	make	could	food				ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material

Option 3

The liver is made of bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 liver	det
2	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bone	case
6	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the liver				of bone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

The liver is far too small to hold any of the body's blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 liver	det
2	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 small	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 small	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 small	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hold	mark
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 small	advcl
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 hold	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 blood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 body	det
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blood	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 body	case
14	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 any	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the liver					far, small property	tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	the liver not said here	any					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme

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