Test 2 · Doctors, cuts and grazes

Why is it best not to pick a scab on your knee?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be · To what, where: knee

This is test 2 of lesson 83 «Doctors, cuts and grazes» 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 pick	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pick	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 best	obj
4	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 pick	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 pick	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pick	mark
7	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 scab	det
9	scab	scab	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 knee	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knee	nmod:poss
12	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present				your knee		pick, well 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

It will make your knee bend the wrong way

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 make	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knee	nmod:poss
5	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bend	nsubj
6	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bend	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	future	It						tree rules
2	bend	present	your knee	the wrong way					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Scabs are poisonous to touch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scabs	scab	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 touch	mark
5	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 poisonous	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Scabs					poisonous property	tree rules
2	touch	to-infinitive	Scabs not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It protects new skin and picking can scar

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 protects	nsubj
2	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skin	amod
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protects	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 scar	cc
6	picking	picking	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scar	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 scar	aux
8	scar	scar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 protects	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present	It	new skin					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary
2	scar	can	picking						vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The scab will grow bigger if picked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scab	det
2	scab	scab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 picked	mark
7	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	future	the scab					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pick a condition, not said to happen	participle	the scab not said here						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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