Test 11 · Needles and brave faces

Which question is fine to ask before a blood test?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: question · What happens: be, ask

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	csubj
7	before	before	ADP	_	10 test	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 test	det
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 test	compound
10	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which question					fine property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive					before a blood test		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

How long will it take and how will it feel?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 take	advmod
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	expl
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feel	cc
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 feel	advmod
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 feel	aux
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 feel	nsubj
10	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	future		it				long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	feel	future	it						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Only grown-ups ask questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 ups	advmod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	present	grown ups	questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

None, children aren't allowed to ask questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	3 children	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 None	punct
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux:pass
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 allowed	advmod
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ask	mark
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 allowed	xcomp
9	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		None children					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	None children not said here	questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

Option 4

Only "can I go home now?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	can	I				now	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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