Test 14 · ★★ · Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing…

my nan says putting ice straight on a bruise "freezes the skin off". what's the true bit

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan, putting · What happens: say, put, freeze off, be · To what, where: ice, bruise, skin, true bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 318 «Drinking water, cuts, bruises, head bumps, burns, growing and needing glasses» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nan	nmod:poss
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 freezes	csubj
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 putting	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 bruise	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bruise	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bruise	det
9	bruise	bruise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 putting	obl
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 bruise	punct
11	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 skin	det
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 freezes	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	11 freezes	compound:prt
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 freezes	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 bit	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 bit	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bit	det
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bit	amod
21	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my nan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put	gerund		ice	a bruise	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme on bruise=Destination
3	freeze off in a quote	present	putting	the skin		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient skin=Result
4	is a	present		the true bit		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

Ice should always go straight on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 on	advmod
6	on	on	ADV	_	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	should	Ice					always property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Never put ice straight on skin; wrap it in a cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 put	advmod
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 skin	case
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 wrap	punct
8	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 put	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wrap	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 cloth	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cloth	det
12	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not put	imperative	you not said here	ice		skin		straight property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ice=Theme on skin=Destination
2	wrap	infinitive		ice		a cloth			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cloth=Destination

Option 3

Bruises need nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bruises	bruise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 need	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Bruises	nothing		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme

Option 4

Bruises need heat, not cold, so put a hot towel on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bruises	bruise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cold	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heat	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 put	advmod
9	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 need	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 towel	det
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 towel	amod
12	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	9 put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Bruises	heat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot heat=Theme
2	put on	infinitive		a hot towel					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent towel=Goal

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