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Test 8 · Eyes, ears and moving your body

A friend says cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, cracking · What happens: say, crack, give, be · To what, where: knuckles, arthritis, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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 friend says cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cracking	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 gives	csubj
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knuckles	nmod:poss
6	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cracking	obj
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 gives	iobj
9	arthritis	arthritis	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	crack	gerund		your knuckles					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knuckle=Theme
3	give	present	cracking	arthritis	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient arthritis=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: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It is true and happens within a week

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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 happens	cc
5	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	conj
6	within	within	ADP	_	8 week	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happens	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It makes the knuckles stronger instead

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knuckles	det
4	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the knuckles				instead, strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material knuckle=Product

Option 3

It is true only for children

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	only	only	ADV	_	6 children	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 children	case
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Studies found no link, though the noise can annoy others

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	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 annoy	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 annoy	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 noise	det
8	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 annoy	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 annoy	aux
10	annoy	annoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 found	conj
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 annoy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Studies	no link					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent link=Topic
2	annoy	can	the noise	others					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer

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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