Test 15 · ★ · Respect for first peoples, older people and people with di…

Why is a broken hip so serious for an older person?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: broken hip · What happens: break, be

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 227 «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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	7 serious	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 serious	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hip	det
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hip	amod
5	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serious	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 serious	advmod
7	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 person	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
10	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 person	amod
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 serious	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 serious	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	a broken hip					for a older person; serious 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.

The options

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

It can take months to heal and stop them walking

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	3 take	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 heal	mark
6	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stop	cc
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stop	obj
10	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	take	can	It		month	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	heal	to-infinitive				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stop	infinitive		them = they		tree rules
4	walk	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It heals in a day

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 heals	nsubj
2	heals	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heals	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	present	It				day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Hips never break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hips	hip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 break	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 break	advmod
3	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not break	present	Hips						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It only hurts a bit

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	3 hurts	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 hurts	advmod
3	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	It	a bit					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Patient

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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