Test 9 · Going to the doctor and staying together in crowds

leg hurts loads but dont wanna say, scared of xray

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leg, dont · What happens: hurt, say · To what, where: loads, scared · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 332 «Going to the doctor and staying together in crowds» 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	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hurts	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
5	dont	dont	X	Foreign=Yes	7 say	nsubj
6	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	5 dont	flat:foreign
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hurts	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 scared	punct
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 xray	case
11	xray	xray	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	leg	loads					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Patient
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	dont	scared					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scared=Topic

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

Say it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fine	expl
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						fine property	tree rules

Option 2

Run off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Say it hurts a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hurts	nsubj
3	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hurt	present	it	a little					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell the doctor the truth; X-rays don't hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doctor	det
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 hurt	punct
7	X	x	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rays	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 X	punct
9	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hurt	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hurt	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hurt	advmod
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the doctor					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient truth=Topic
2	not hurt	present · do-support	X rays						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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