Test 5 · Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones
Kai in Perth: «kids' bones don't break, they just bend, sweet as». Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bones · What happens: not break, bend
This is test 5 of lesson 48 «Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones» 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: Kai in Perth: «kids' bones don't break, they just bend, sweet as».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Perth | case |
| 3 | Perth | Perth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kai | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 break | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 break | nsubj |
| 6 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bones | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 kids | case |
| 8 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 break | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 break | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 break | advmod |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Kai | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bend | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bend | nsubj |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 bend | advmod |
| 15 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 break | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sweet | punct |
| 17 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bend | ccomp |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 » | mark |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 sweet | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kai | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not break in a quote | present · do-support | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | bend in a quote | present | bones = bone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, kids' bones break more easily than glass does
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 break | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
| 3 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bones | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 kids | case |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 break | nsubj |
| 6 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 does | advcl |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 easily | advmod |
| 8 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 6 break | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 glass | case |
| 10 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 easily | obl |
| 11 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | kids's bones | easily property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yes, until they turn ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 turn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 turn | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 turn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | they | ten | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ten=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, kids' bones are rubber
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 rubber | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bones | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 kids | case |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rubber | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rubber | cop |
| 7 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | kids's bones | rubber | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, they bend and crack and need treating
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 bend | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bend | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bend | nsubj |
| 4 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 crack | cc |
| 6 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bend | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 need | cc |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bend | conj |
| 9 | treating | treating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 need | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present | they | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | crack | present | they not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | need | present | they not said here | treating | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treating=Theme |
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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