Test 6 · Doctors, cuts and grazes

Why do some cuts need stitches?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cuts · What happens: need · To what, where: stitches

This is test 6 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 cuts	det
4	cuts	cut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	some cuts	stitches					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=Theme

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

They are deep and keep bleeding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 deep	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 deep	cop
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keep	cc
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 deep	conj
6	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	They	deep property	tree rules
2	keep	infinitive	They not said here		tree rules
3	bleed	gerund	They not said here		vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 2

They were made by a sheet of paper or card

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 sheet	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sheet	det
6	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 paper	case
8	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sheet	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 card	cc
10	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sheet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	a sheet of paper or card	They					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

Option 3

They are on the hand or the fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hand	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hand	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hand	det
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 fingers	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fingers	det
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			the hand or the fingers			tree rules

Option 4

They are older than a day or two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 older	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 older	cop
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 older	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 two	cc
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They				day	old property	tree rules

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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