Test 5 · Snap! Breaking a bone

What would happen if a broken arm were never straightened and held still?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, break, not straighten, hold · To what, where: broken arm

This is test 5 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 straightened	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 arm	det
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 arm	amod
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 straightened	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 straightened	aux:pass
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 straightened	advmod
10	straightened	straighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 held	cc
12	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 straightened	conj
13	still	still	ADV	_	12 held	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break	participle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	not straighten a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	a broken arm		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	hold	participle		still	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

It would grow a new arm

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 arm	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arm	amod
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	a new arm					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=Theme

Option 2

The bone would melt away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bone	det
2	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melt	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 melt	aux
4	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 melt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt away	would	the bone					away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It might heal crooked

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 heal	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 heal	aux
3	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heal	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	might	It					crooked property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It would heal straighter than before

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 heal	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 heal	aux
3	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	straighter	straight	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 heal	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 before	case
6	before	before	ADV	_	4 straighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	would	It					straight property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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