Test 6 · ★ · Nosebleeds and bumps on the head

Why do some kids get nosebleeds more in winter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: get · To what, where: nosebleeds

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 5 «Nosebleeds and bumps on the head» 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	5 get	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 some	aux
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nosebleeds	nosebleed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obj
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 winter	case
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	some kids	nosebleeds					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent nosebleed=Beneficiary more=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Snow gets up into the nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 gets	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 nose	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nose	det
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	present	Snow			the nose			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nose=Destination

Option 2

Cold weather makes the blood thinner and runnier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 weather	amod
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 blood	det
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 runnier	cc
8	runnier	runny	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 thinner	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Cold weather	the blood				thin property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blood=Product

Option 3

They eat more sweets in winter and get hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sweets	amod
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 get	cc
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eat	conj
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	more sweets			winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient
2	get	infinitive	They not said here					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dry heated air dries the inside of the nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 air	amod
2	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 air	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dries	nsubj
4	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inside	det
6	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dries	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 nose	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nose	det
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inside	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	dry	present	Dry heated air	the inside of the nose					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient inside=Result

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