Test 3 · ★ · Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns

Why does cooling a burn for a long time help?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cool · To what, where: burn

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 84 «Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns» 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	3 cooling	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cooling	aux
3	cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 burn	det
5	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooling	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 help	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 help	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	compound
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooling	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cooling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present · do-support		a burn				for a time help	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent burn=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

It washes all the germs off the burn

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 washes	nsubj
2	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 germs	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 germs	det
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 washes	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 burn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 burn	det
8	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 washes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present	It	all germs		the burn			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent germ=Theme off burn=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It numbs the skin so you forget it

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 numbs	nsubj
2	numbs	numb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 numbs	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 forget	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 forget	nsubj
7	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 numbs	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	numb	present	It	the skin					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus skin=Experiencer
2	forget	present	you	skin					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It stops the heat going deeper into the skin

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 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heat	det
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obj
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 heat	acl
6	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 going	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 skin	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skin	det
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	the heat		the skin			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality heat=Eventuality
2	go	gerund	the heat not said here					deep property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It slowly makes the burn turn into a small bruise

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 makes	nsubj
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 burn	det
5	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 bruise	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bruise	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bruise	amod
10	bruise	bruise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the burn				slowly property	tree rules
2	turn	present	the burn not said here			a small bruise			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bruise=Trajectory

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