Test 7 · Snap! Breaking a bone

Which is true about growth plate breaks?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 7 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	about	about	ADP	_	7 breaks	case
5	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plate	compound
6	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 breaks	compound
7	breaks	break	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about plate breaks; true property	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.

The options

Option 1

They always stop the bone growing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 stop	advmod
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bone	det
5	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obj
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	They	the bone				always property	tree rules
2	grow	gerund	They not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Most heal completely, but doctors may check them later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 heal	nsubj
2	heal	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	completely	completely	ADV	_	2 heal	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 check	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 check	cc
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 check	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 check	aux
8	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heal	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 check	obj
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 check	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	present	Most					completely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	check	may	doctors	them = they				late property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

They only happen to adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happen	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod
3	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	They					to adults	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They never need an X-ray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 need	advmod
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ray	det
5	X	x	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ray	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 X	punct
7	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	They	a X ray					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ray=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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