Test 8 · ★★ · Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters
Ella fainted when she saw blood, and Tom called her a wimp. Who is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella, Tom · What happens: faint, see, call, be · To what, where: blood, Ella · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Ella fainted when she saw blood, and Tom called her a wimp.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fainted | nsubj |
| 2 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fainted | advcl |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 9 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fainted | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wimp | det |
| 13 | wimp | wimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fainted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past | Ella | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Ella | blood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call | past | Tom | Ella | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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: Who is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tom; fainting at blood is a common reflex
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tom | punct |
| 3 | fainting | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 reflex | csubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 blood | case |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fainting | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 reflex | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 reflex | det |
| 8 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reflex | amod |
| 9 | reflex | reflex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tom | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | gerund | at blood | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at blood=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | fainting | a common reflex | tree rules |
Option 2
Tom, because only doctors are allowed to faint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 allowed | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 allowed | mark |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 doctors | advmod |
| 5 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 allowed | aux:pass |
| 7 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Tom | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 faint | mark |
| 9 | faint | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 allowed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | present · passive | Tom not said here | doctors | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | faint not said to happen | to-infinitive | doctors not said here | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Neither, fainting means you are weak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 4 means | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | fainting | fainting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 weak | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 weak | cop |
| 7 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | fainting | neither property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | weak property | tree rules |
Option 4
Ella; she was faking it to get out of class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 faking | vocative |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ella | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 faking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 faking | aux |
| 5 | faking | fake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 faking | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 faking | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 class | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 class | case |
| 11 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fake | past · progressive | Ella | it | Ella vocative | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | get out | to-infinitive | Ella not said here | class | tree rules |
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