Test 8 · Sprains, strains and bruises
Netball hit my fingertip, now it won't straighten. Just yank it?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Netball, you · What happens: hit, not straighten, yank · To what, where: fingertip
This is test 8 of lesson 3 «Sprains, strains and bruises» 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: Netball hit my fingertip, now it won't straighten.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netball | netball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fingertip | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fingertip | fingertip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hit | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 straighten | punct |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 straighten | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 straighten | nsubj |
| 8 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 straighten | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 straighten | advmod |
| 10 | straighten | straighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hit | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | Netball | my fingertip | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fingertip=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | not straighten | future | Netball | now | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Just yank it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 yank | advmod |
| 2 | yank | yank | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 yank | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 yank | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yank | imperative | you not said here | fingertip | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1
Yes, one hard yank always fixes it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 fixes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 yank | nummod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yank | amod |
| 5 | yank | yank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fixes | nsubj |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 fixes | advmod |
| 7 | fixes | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fixes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | present | one hard yank | it | always property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2
Yes, but only twice, then leave it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 leave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 leave | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 twice | advmod |
| 5 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 leave | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 twice | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 leave | advmod |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | it | then | twice property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
No, tape it flat to your nose till it straightens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 tape | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | tape | tape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tape | obj |
| 5 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tape | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 nose | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nose | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tape | obl |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 straightens | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 straightens | nsubj |
| 11 | straightens | straighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tape | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tape | imperative | you not said here | it | to your nose; flat property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to nose=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | straighten | present | nose | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it needs an X-ray; pulling can make a break worse
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 needs | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ray | det |
| 6 | X | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ray | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 X | punct |
| 8 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 10 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 make | csubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 needs | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 break | det |
| 14 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | it | a X ray | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ray=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | make | can | pulling | a break | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset break=Product |
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