Test 3 · Snap! Breaking a bone
Grandad says drink lots of milk and the bone mends in days. Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, bone · What happens: say, mend · To what, where: drink lots · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 of lesson 1 «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine 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: Grandad says drink lots of milk and the bone mends in days.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lots | compound |
| 4 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 says | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 milk | case |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lots | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mends | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bone | det |
| 9 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mends | nsubj |
| 10 | mends | mend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mends | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Grandad | drink lots of milk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mend | present | the bone | day | tree rules |
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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, milk makes bones break again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 makes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 break | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | milk | bones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | infinitive | bones not said here | again | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Yes, three big glasses a day will heal any break in a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 heal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 glasses | nummod |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 glasses | amod |
| 5 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heal | nsubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heal | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 heal | aux |
| 9 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 break | det |
| 11 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heal | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 week | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 week | det |
| 14 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heal | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heal | future | three big glasses | any break | week | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent break=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, good food helps, but healing still takes weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 good | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 food | amod |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 helps | nsubj |
| 5 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 takes | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 takes | cc |
| 8 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 takes | nsubj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 takes | advmod |
| 10 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 helps | conj |
| 11 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 takes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | good food | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | present | healing | still; week | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yes, milk glues bones in a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 glues | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glues | nsubj |
| 4 | glues | glue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glues | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glues | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glue | present | milk | bones | day | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
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