Test 4 · ★★ · Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters
Mum wants to pour stinging antiseptic on my little graze. What's the advice?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum, my, advice · What happens: want, pour, sting, graze, be · To what, where: stinging antiseptic, little graze
This is test 4 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Mum wants to pour stinging antiseptic on my little graze.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 pour | mark |
| 4 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 antiseptic | amod |
| 6 | antiseptic | antiseptic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pour | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 graze | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 graze | nmod:poss |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 graze | amod |
| 10 | graze | graze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pour | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Mum | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pour not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mum not said here | stinging antiseptic | my little graze | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antiseptic=Patient | |||
| 3 | sting | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | graze | my | nom graze «state transitive»: poss=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.
Sentence 2: What's the 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 | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 advice | det |
| 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 | the advice | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Grazes need a splash of vinegar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grazes | graze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 splash | det |
| 4 | splash | splash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 need | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 vinegar | case |
| 6 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 splash | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Grazes | a splash of vinegar | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot splash=Theme | ||||
| 2 | splash | vinegar | nom splash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 2
Grazes should never get wet while they heal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grazes | graze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 heal | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heal | nsubj |
| 8 | heal | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | should | Grazes | wet property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | heal | present | Grazes = graze | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Antiseptic must always sting or it isn't working
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antiseptic | antiseptic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sting | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sting | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 sting | advmod |
| 4 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 working | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 working | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 working | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 working | advmod |
| 9 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sting | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | must | Antiseptic | always property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not work | present · progressive | Antiseptic | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Clean running water usually does the main job
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 water | amod |
| 2 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 water | amod |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 does | nsubj |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 does | advmod |
| 5 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 job | det |
| 7 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 job | amod |
| 8 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 does | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | Clean running water | the main job | usually property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
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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