Test 8 · Snap! Breaking a bone

Will the metal pins in my friend's leg make him stick to fridges?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: metal pins, friend · What happens: make, stick · To what, where: friend

This is test 8 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	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pins	det
3	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pins	compound
4	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 leg	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leg	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 friend	case
9	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pins	nmod
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 fridges	case
14	fridges	fridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stick	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	future	the metal pins in my friend's leg	friend					tree rules
2	stick	infinitive	friend not said here					to fridges	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to fridge=Co-Patient

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

No, because the pins are made of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 made	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pins	det
5	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 wood	case
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		the pins				of wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

Yes, he will stick to magnets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 stick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stick	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stick	aux
5	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 magnets	case
7	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	future	he					to magnets	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to magnet=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, pins do not make you magnetic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present · do-support	pins	you				magnetic property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product

Option 4

Yes, but only when it rains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 rains	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rains	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 rains	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 rains	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 rains	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rains	nsubj
7	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	present	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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