Test 6 · ★ · The cast: itching, signing and the saw

Why does a physio give you just a few exercises and not loads?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: physio · What happens: give · To what, where: few exercises, you

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 give	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 physio	det
4	physio	physio	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 exercises	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 exercises	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 exercises	amod
10	exercises	exercise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 loads	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 loads	advmod
13	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 exercises	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · do-support	a physio	a few exercises and loads	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 · ✓ the right answer

Doing more than told can strain the healing arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 strain	csubj
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Doing	obj
3	than	than	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 more	advcl
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 strain	aux
6	strain	strain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 arm	det
8	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arm	compound
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	gerund		more	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	participle			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	strain	can	Doing	the healing arm	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent arm=Source

Option 2

Exercises cost money each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exercises	exercise	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cost	nsubj
2	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cost	obj
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	Exercises	money					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme money=Beneficiary each=Value

Option 3

More exercises would make the arm grow far too strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 exercises	amod
2	exercises	exercise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 arm	det
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	xcomp
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 strong	advmod
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 strong	advmod
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	More exercises	the arm					tree rules
2	grow	present	the arm not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Physios are lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Physios	physio	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lazy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Physios					lazy property	tree rules

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