Test 6 · Eyes, ears and moving your body
A girl twisted her ankle at netball. Which plan helps the swelling go down?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, plan, swelling · What happens: twist, help, go down · To what, where: ankle, netball, swelling
This is test 6 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
Sentence 1: A girl twisted her ankle at netball.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twisted | nsubj |
| 3 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ankle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ankle | ankle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twisted | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 netball | case |
| 7 | netball | netball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twisted | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 twisted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past | a girl | girl's ankle | netball | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ankle=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.
Sentence 2: Which plan helps the swelling go down?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 plan | det |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 swelling | det |
| 5 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helps | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 helps | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | which plan | the swelling | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent swelling=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go down | infinitive | the swelling not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Rest it, cool it and raise it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Rest | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cool | punct |
| 4 | cool | cool | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Rest | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cool | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 raise | cc |
| 7 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Rest | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 raise | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | imperative | you not said here | it | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cool | infinitive | you not said here | it | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | raise | infinitive | you not said here | it | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2
Tie it very tightly with string
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tie | obj |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 tightly | advmod |
| 4 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 1 Tie | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 string | case |
| 6 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tie | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | imperative | you not said here | it | with string; tightly property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with string=Co-Patient |
Option 3
Walk on it a lot to stretch it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Walk | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lot | det |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walk | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stretch | mark |
| 7 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Walk | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stretch | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | imperative | you not said here | a lot | it | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stretch | to-infinitive | you not said here | lot | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 4
Heat it with a hot water bottle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heat | heat | VERB | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Heat | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 bottle | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bottle | det |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bottle | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottle | compound |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Heat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heat | imperative | you not said here | it | with a hot water bottle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bottle=Instrument |
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