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Test 4 · ★★★ · The brain and nerves

A girl's leg stays still when the doctor taps her knee, even though she is relaxed. What might the doctor think?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leg, doctor · What happens: stay, tap, be, think · To what, where: knee

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: A girl's leg stays still when the doctor taps her knee, even though she is relaxed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leg	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 girl	case
4	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	nsubj
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 stays	advmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 taps	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 doctor	det
9	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taps	nsubj
10	taps	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stays	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knee	nmod:poss
12	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taps	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 relaxed	punct
14	even	even	ADV	_	18 relaxed	advmod
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 relaxed	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 relaxed	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 relaxed	cop
18	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 taps	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stays	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	a girl's leg				still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tap	present	the doctor	doctor's knee					vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent knee=Location
3	is	present	leg					relaxed property	tree rules

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 might the doctor think?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 think	obj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	might	the doctor						vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Her knee is too strong for the little hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 knee	nmod:poss
2	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 hammer	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hammer	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hammer	amod
9	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her knee					for the little hammer; strong property	tree rules

Option 2

Her leg has gone to sleep forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 leg	nmod:poss
2	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	advcl
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	Her leg						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	Her leg not said here					forever property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She has far too much brain power and it stops the kick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 much	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 power	amod
6	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 power	compound
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stops	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stops	nsubj
10	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kick	det
12	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	She	much brain power					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	stop	present	power	the kick					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality kick=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The reflex path through her spinal cord may not be working well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 path	det
2	reflex	reflex	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 path	compound
3	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 working	nsubj
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 cord	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cord	nmod:poss
6	spinal	spinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cord	amod
7	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 path	nmod
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 working	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 working	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 working	aux
11	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	may · progressive	the reflex path through path's spinal cord					well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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