Test 6 · ★★ · Home myths, first aid and weather warnings

Why does pressing a cloth on a cut help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: press · To what, where: cloth, cut help

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 120 «Home myths, first aid and weather warnings» of the everyday 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	3 pressing	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pressing	aux
3	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressing	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 help	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 help	det
8	cut	cut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 help	amod
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pressing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present · do-support		a cloth		a cut help			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The pressure helps the bleeding stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pressure	det
2	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	nsubj
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stop	det
5	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	compound
6	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	the pressure	the bleeding stop					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Beneficiary

Option 2

It makes the cut close up and heal over in just a second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cut	det
4	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 close	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 heal	cc
8	heal	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
9	over	over	ADV	_	8 heal	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 second	case
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 second	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 second	det
13	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the cut			tree rules
2	close up	infinitive	the cut not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	heal over	present			second	over property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The cloth soaks up the pain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cloth	det
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soaks	nsubj
3	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 soaks	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pain	det
6	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	the cloth	the pain					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pain=Source

Option 4

It keeps the finger warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 finger	det
4	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the finger				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme

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