Test 6 · Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals

Why is it a bad idea to ignore pain in your foot during a long walk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, ignore · To what, where: bad idea, pain, foot

This is test 6 of lesson 9 «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» 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	6 idea	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idea	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 idea	expl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ignore	mark
8	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 idea	acl
9	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ignore	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 foot	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 foot	nmod:poss
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ignore	obl
13	during	during	ADP	_	16 walk	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 walk	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 walk	amod
16	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ignore	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 idea	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a bad idea					tree rules
2	ignore	to-infinitive		pain		your foot	during a long walk		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=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

Pain makes your foot stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 foot	nmod:poss
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Pain	your foot				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset foot=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pain warns that something may be wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warns	nsubj
2	warns	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 wrong	mark
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 wrong	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 warns	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	present	Pain						vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	may	something					wrong property	tree rules

Option 3

Pain is just a feeling with no meaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feeling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feeling	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 feeling	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feeling	det
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 meaning	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 meaning	det
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feeling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Pain	a feeling				with no meaning	tree rules

Option 4

Pain always goes away by walking faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 goes	advmod
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 goes	advmod
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 walking	mark
6	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 goes	advcl
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 walking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	present	Pain					always, away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	gerund	Pain not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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