Test 3 · ★★★ · The brain and nerves

What would happen if a nerve from the hand to the spinal cord were cut?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, cut · To what, where: nerve

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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

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	_	15 cut	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nerve	det
6	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cut	nsubj:pass
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hand	det
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nerve	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 cord	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cord	det
12	spinal	spinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cord	amod
13	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	nmod
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cut	aux:pass
15	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a nerve from the hand to the spinal cord					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The brain would stop getting touch signals from that hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brain	det
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 signals	compound
7	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 getting	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 hand	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 hand	det
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the brain						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	get	gerund	the brain not said here	touch signals		that hand			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent signal=Theme from hand=Source

Option 2

The hand would slowly grow a little brain of its own to make up for it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hand	det
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 brain	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brain	amod
8	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 own	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brain	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 grow	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 make	compound:prt
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the hand	a little brain of hand's own				slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brain=Theme
2	make up	to-infinitive	the hand not said here					for hand	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The hand would feel everything twice as strongly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hand	det
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 feel	obj
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 feel	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 strongly	advmod
8	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	4 feel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	the hand	everything				strongly, twice property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, hands do not need nerves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 hands	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Nothing hands	nerves					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nerve=Theme

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