Test 11 · ★★ · Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters

Why do they numb the skin before stitches?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: numb · To what, where: skin

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 4 «Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 numb	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 numb	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 numb	nsubj
4	numb	numb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skin	det
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 numb	obj
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 stitches	case
8	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 numb	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 numb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	numb	present · do-support	they	the skin			before stitches		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus skin=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

So putting in stitches does not hurt much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	7 hurt	advmod
2	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hurt	csubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 stitches	case
4	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 putting	obl
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hurt	advmod
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	much	much	ADV	_	7 hurt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	gerund				stitches			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stitch=Destination
2	not hurt	present · do-support	putting						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To make the cut close up by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 close	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cut	det
4	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 close	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the cut					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cut=Product
2	close up	present						by cut	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

So you fall asleep while they sew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 fall	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
3	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fall	xcomp
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 sew	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sew	nsubj
7	sew	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	you					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sew	present	they						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

To kill all the germs inside the cut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 kill	mark
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 germs	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 germs	det
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kill	obj
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 cut	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cut	det
8	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	to-infinitive		all germs		the cut			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

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