Test 10 · ★ · Warming up, stitches and cramp
Cramp hits mid-swim, halfway across. What would happen if he panicked and thrashed?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cramp · What happens: hit, happen, panic, thrash · To what, where: mid-swim
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 37 «Warming up, stitches and cramp» 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: Cramp hits mid-swim, halfway across.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cramp | cramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hits | nsubj |
| 2 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mid-swim | mid-swim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hits | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 across | punct |
| 5 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 6 across | advmod |
| 6 | across | across | ADV | _ | 2 hits | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | present | Cramp | mid-swim | across property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mid-swim=Co-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.
Sentence 2: What would happen if he panicked and thrashed?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 panicked | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 panicked | nsubj |
| 6 | panicked | panic | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thrashed | cc |
| 8 | thrashed | thrash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 panicked | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | panic a condition, not said to happen | past | Cramp | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | thrash | participle | Cramp not said here | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, thrashing is the safe choice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 thrashing | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | thrashing | thrashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 choice | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 choice | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 choice | det |
| 6 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 choice | amod |
| 7 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nothing thrashing | the safe choice | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He'd tire fast and could swallow water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tire | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tire | aux |
| 3 | tire | tire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tire | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 swallow | cc |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 swallow | aux |
| 7 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tire | conj |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swallow | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tire | would | He | fast property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | swallow | could | He not said here | water | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
Option 3
He would sink straight to the bottom of the pool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sink | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sink | aux |
| 3 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 bottom | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sink | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pool | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pool | det |
| 10 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottom | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | would | He | to the bottom of the pool | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
The cramp would vanish faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cramp | det |
| 2 | cramp | cramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vanish | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanish | aux |
| 4 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 vanish | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | would | the cramp | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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