Test 4 · Needles and brave faces

"count backwards from 20 while she does it, it works" — why?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: she, it · What happens: count, do, work · To what, where: 20, it

This is test 4 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 count	punct
2	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 works	advcl
3	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	2 count	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 20	case
5	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 count	obl
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 does	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 count	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 does	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 works	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 works	nsubj
12	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 works	punct
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 works	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 works	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	count in a quote	infinitive			20	backwards property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	do in a quote	present	she	it			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	work in a quote	present	it				vn employment-95.3 «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

It's magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 magic	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 magic	cop
3	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	magic					tree rules

Option 2

The nurse can only work while you are counting out loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 counting	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 counting	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 counting	aux
9	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 work	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 counting	compound:prt
11	loud	loud	ADV	_	9 counting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	can	the nurse						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	count out	present · progressive	you					loud property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Counting numbs the arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 numbs	nsubj
2	numbs	numb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 arm	det
4	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 numbs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund							vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	numb	present		the arm					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus arm=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Distraction makes the brain pay less attention to pain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Distraction	distraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brain	det
4	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 attention	amod
7	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pain	mark
9	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Distraction	the brain					tree rules
2	pay	infinitive	the brain not said here	less attention					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset

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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