Test 2 · ★ · Moving, swimming and sport

What would happen if you cracked the knuckles of one hand every day for years and never the other?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, crack · To what, where: knuckles

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 5 «Moving, swimming and sport» of the myths 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 cracked	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 cracked	nsubj
6	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knuckles	det
8	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cracked	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hand	nummod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knuckles	nmod
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cracked	obl:unmarked
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cracked	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 other	cc
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 other	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 other	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happen	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crack a condition, not said to happen	past	you	the knuckles of one hand			day; year		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knuckle=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 · ✓ the right answer

Very likely no difference in arthritis between the hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 likely	advmod
2	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 difference	advmod
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 difference	det
4	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 arthritis	case
6	arthritis	arthritis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 difference	nmod
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 hands	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hands	det
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 arthritis	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The other hand would get weaker from not cracking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hand	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hand	amod
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	xcomp
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	9 cracking	mark
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 cracking	advmod
9	cracking	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 get	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the other hand					weak property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not crack	gerund	the other hand not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Both hands would stop popping forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 hands	det
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	popping	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 popping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	both hands						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	pop	gerund	both hands not said here					forever property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The cracking hand would get arthritis first, just as Gran warned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hand	det
2	cracking	cracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hand	compound
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	arthritis	arthritis	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 get	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 warned	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 warned	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 warned	mark
11	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 warned	nsubj
12	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 warned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the cracking hand	arthritis				first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arthritis=Stimulus
2	warn speech: warn	past	Gran		hand				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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