Test 10 · Needles and brave faces
Nurse asks if you want numbing cream. You think it's for wimps. Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nurse, you, cream · What happens: ask, want, numb, think, be · To what, where: cream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 32 «Needles and brave faces» 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: Nurse asks if you want numbing cream.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 want | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | ccomp |
| 6 | numbing | numb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 want | xcomp |
| 7 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 numbing | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Nurse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | numb not said to happen | gerund | you not said here | cream | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cream=Experiencer |
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: You think it's for wimps.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wimps | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wimps | cop |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 wimps | case |
| 6 | wimps | wimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 think | ccomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | You | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | cream | for wimps | tree rules |
Sentence 3: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, only wimps who can't take a bit of pain use it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 wimps | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 wimps | advmod |
| 4 | wimps | wimp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 take | nsubj |
| 6 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 take | advmod |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wimps | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bit | det |
| 10 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 use | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pain | case |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bit | nmod |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 use | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wimp | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not take | can | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | use | present | a bit of pain | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2
Yes, it's only for babies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 babies | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 babies | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 babies | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 babies | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 babies | case |
| 7 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | for babies | tree rules |
Option 3
No, it's only for adults having operations
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 adults | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 adults | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 adults | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 adults | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 adults | case |
| 7 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 adults | acl |
| 9 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 having | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | for adults | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | adults not said here | operations | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent operation=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, it's a sensible tool anyone can ask for
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 anyone | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 anyone | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 anyone | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 anyone | det |
| 6 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 anyone | amod |
| 7 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 anyone | compound |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | anyone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | can | anyone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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