Test 11 · ★ · The cast: itching, signing and the saw

Is it rude to ask friends to sign your cast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, ask, sign · To what, where: friends, cast

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2 «The cast: itching, signing and the saw» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 ask	mark
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rude	advcl
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sign	mark
8	sign	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	xcomp
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cast	nmod:poss
10	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sign	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 rude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			rude property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			friends		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sign not said to happen	to-infinitive		your cast			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cast=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, doctors don't mind writing on the outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 mind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mind	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mind	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 mind	advmod
6	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 mind	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 outside	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 outside	det
10	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 writing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mind	present · do-support	doctors						vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	write	gerund	doctors not said here			the outside			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on outside=Destination

Option 2

Yes, it damages the bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 damages	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 damages	nsubj
4	damages	damage	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	4 damages	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	present	it	the bone					vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument bone=Patient

Option 3

Yes, only doctors and nurses are allowed to write on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 allowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 doctors	advmod
4	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 allowed	nsubj:pass
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nurses	cc
6	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 doctors	conj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 allowed	aux:pass
8	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 write	mark
10	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 allowed	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		doctors and nurses					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	write not said to happen	to-infinitive	doctors and nurses not said here			it			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination

Option 4

No, but only with a pencil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 pencil	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pencil	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 pencil	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 pencil	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 pencil	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pencil	det
7	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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