Test 7 · ★ · Warming up, stitches and cramp
Coach yells: "Shake it out, give that leg a proper yank!" What's sound advice?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Coach · What happens: yell, shake out, give, be · To what, where: Coach, leg, sound advice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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: Coach yells: "Shake it out, give that leg a proper yank!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yells | nsubj |
| 2 | yells | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Shake | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Shake | punct |
| 5 | Shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 yells | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Shake | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 Shake | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Shake | conj |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 leg | det |
| 11 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 yank | det |
| 13 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 yank | amod |
| 14 | yank | yank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Shake | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Shake | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | present | Coach | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | shake out in a quote | infinitive | Coach | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | that leg | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent leg=Recipient yank=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's sound advice?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 advice | cop |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advice | compound |
| 4 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sound advice | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Keep it bent and tight until it stops on its own
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tight | cc |
| 5 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bent | conj |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 stops | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stops | nsubj |
| 8 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 own | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 own | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stops | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | it | bent property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | stop | present | it | its own | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2
Yank it as hard as possible to snap the cramp out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yank | yank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hard | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 hard | advmod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 possible | mark |
| 6 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hard | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 snap | mark |
| 8 | snap | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hard | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cramp | det |
| 10 | cramp | cramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snap | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 snap | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap out | to-infinitive | the cramp | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cramp=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Stretch slowly and steadily, never with a jerk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 1 Stretch | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 steadily | cc |
| 4 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 2 slowly | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 jerk | punct |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 jerk | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 jerk | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 jerk | det |
| 9 | jerk | jerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stretch | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | imperative | you not said here | slowly property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Sprint on it until it stops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sprint | sprint | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Sprint | obl |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 stops | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stops | nsubj |
| 6 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sprint | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprint | imperative | you not said here | it | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | it | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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