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Test 12 · ★★★ · The brain and nerves

You cross your legs for an hour and your foot goes numb, then tingles. What does the tingle mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, foot, tingle · What happens: cross, go, mean · To what, where: legs, tingles

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 68 «The brain and nerves» 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: You cross your legs for an hour and your foot goes numb, then tingles.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 cross	nsubj
2	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cross	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 hour	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cross	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 goes	cc
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 foot	nmod:poss
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 goes	nsubj
11	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cross	conj
12	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 goes	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tingles	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 tingles	advmod
15	tingles	tingle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 goes	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cross	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	present	You	your legs			hour		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	go	present	your foot	tingles				numb property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: What does the tingle mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tingle	det
4	tingle	tingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	the tingle						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The bone in the foot is growing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bone	det
2	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growing	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 foot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 foot	det
5	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bone	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 growing	aux
7	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · progressive	the bone in the foot						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The blood has turned into fizz

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blood	det
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	aux
4	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 fizz	case
6	fizz	fizz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present · perfect	the blood			fizz			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into fizz=Trajectory

Option 3

The foot is freezing because the blood stopped for an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 foot	det
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freezing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 freezing	aux
4	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 stopped	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blood	det
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	nsubj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 freezing	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 hour	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · progressive	the foot						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stop	past	the blood				hour		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The squashed nerve is waking up and sending signals again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nerve	det
2	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nerve	amod
3	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waking	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 waking	aux
5	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 waking	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sending	cc
8	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 waking	conj
9	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sending	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 sending	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	participle							vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	wake up	present · progressive	the squashed nerve						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	send	gerund	the squashed nerve not said here	signals			again		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme

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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