Test 6 · Snap! Breaking a bone
Sam hit the ground hard, felt sick and fainted for a second. Is he just a wimp?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: hit, feel, faint, be · To what, where: ground, wimp
This is test 6 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: Sam hit the ground hard, felt sick and fainted for a second.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ground | det |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hit | obj |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 hit | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hit | conj |
| 8 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 felt | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fainted | cc |
| 10 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 second | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 second | det |
| 13 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fainted | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | Sam | the ground | hard property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | past | Sam not said here | sick property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | faint | past | Sam not said here | second | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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: Is he just a wimp?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wimp | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wimp | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 wimp | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wimp | det |
| 5 | wimp | wimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wimp | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sam | a wimp | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, only weak people faint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 weak | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 weak | advmod |
| 4 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 faint | nsubj |
| 6 | faint | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | present | weak people | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, shock and pain can make anyone faint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 shock | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shock | punct |
| 3 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pain | cc |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shock | conj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | shock and pain | anyone | faint property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset anyone=Product |
Option 3
No, fainting means the bone is fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | fainting | fainting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bone | det |
| 6 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fine | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fine | cop |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | fainting | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the bone | fine property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, fainting just means he is pretending to be hurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 fainting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | fainting | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | csubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pretending | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pretending | aux |
| 8 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 means | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hurt | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hurt | aux:pass |
| 11 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 pretending | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | gerund | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | fainting | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pretend | present · progressive | he | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hurt | to-infinitive · passive | he not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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