Test 16 · Eyes, ears and moving your body

Ben's telling everyone if u crack ur knuckles u get arthritis n ur fingers go all twisted by 20

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, telling · What happens: tell, crack, twist · To what, where: everyone, knuckles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 of lesson 87 «Eyes, ears and moving your body» 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	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 twisted	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ben	case
3	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 twisted	csubj:pass
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 telling	iobj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 crack	mark
6	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 crack	nsubj
7	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 get	advcl
8	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knuckles	nmod:poss
9	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crack	obj
10	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
11	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 twisted	aux:pass
12	arthritis	arthritis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
13	n	not	ADV	_	11 get	advmod
14	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fingers	nmod:poss
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	obj
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 twisted	aux
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 twisted	advmod
18	twisted	twist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 20	case
20	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 twisted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			everyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	crack a condition, not said to happen	present	u	ur's knuckles			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knuckle=Theme
3	twist	present · passive	telling			by 20; all property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: by 20=Trajectory

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 is true, and it happens by the age of 20

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 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 happens	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 happens	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 happens	nsubj
7	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 age	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 age	det
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happens	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 20	case
12	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 age	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	happen	present	it				by the age of 20		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by age=Location

Option 2

It is true, but only for the thumbs

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 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thumbs	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 thumbs	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 thumbs	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 thumbs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thumbs	det
9	thumbs	thumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	parataxis

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

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

Studies found no link to arthritis, so that part is just a rumour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 link	det
4	link	link	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 arthritis	case
6	arthritis	arthritis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 link	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rumour	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 rumour	mark
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 part	det
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rumour	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rumour	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 rumour	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 rumour	det
14	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Studies	no link				to arthritis	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent link=Topic
2	is a	present	that part	a rumour					tree rules

Option 4

It is true if you crack them more than once a day

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 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 crack	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 crack	nsubj
6	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 crack	obj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 once	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 more	fixed
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 crack	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 once	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	crack a condition, not said to happen	present	you	them = they				once property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

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