Test 2 · ★ · Skating and sports safety

Why might a sprinter pull a muscle if she runs fast without warming up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sprinter · What happens: pull, run, warm up · To what, where: muscle

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 6 «Skating and sports safety» 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	5 pull	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pull	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sprinter	det
4	sprinter	sprinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pull	nsubj
5	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 muscle	det
7	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pull	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 runs	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 runs	nsubj
10	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pull	advcl
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 runs	advmod
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 warming	mark
13	warming	warm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 pull	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 warming	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pull	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull	might	a sprinter	a muscle		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Theme
2	run a condition, not said to happen	present	sprinter		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	warm up	gerund	a sprinter not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Her shoes are too new

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 shoes	nmod:poss
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 new	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 new	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 new	advmod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her shoes					new property	tree rules

Option 2

She is too rested

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	4 rested	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rested	aux:pass
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 rested	advmod
4	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	present · passive		She					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Her cold muscles are stiff and strain easily

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	3 muscles	nmod:poss
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 muscles	amod
3	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stiff	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stiff	cop
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 strain	cc
7	strain	strain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stiff	conj
8	easily	easily	ADV	_	7 strain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her cold muscles					stiff property	tree rules
2	strain	present	Her cold muscles not said here					easily property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Cold muscles are actually stronger than warm ones, so it is not that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 muscles	amod
2	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stronger	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stronger	cop
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 stronger	advmod
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 ones	case
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stronger	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 is	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 is	nsubj
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stronger	parataxis
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 is	advmod
14	that	that	ADV	_	5 stronger	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cold muscles					than warm ones; actually, strong, that property	tree rules
2	not be	present	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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