Test 10 · The skeleton and muscles

wait how come u can bend ur knee but not ur shin in the middle

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, u · What happens: wait, bend · To what, where: knee, middle

This is test 10 of lesson 31 «The skeleton and muscles» of the world 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
4	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 bend	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bend	aux
6	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	parataxis
7	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 knee	nmod:poss
8	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bend	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 shin	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 shin	advmod
11	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shin	nmod:poss
12	shin	shin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knee	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bend	can	u	ur's knee but ur's shin		the middle			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent knee=Theme in middle=Location

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

The shin bone is too short to bend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bone	det
2	shin	shin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	compound
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 short	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 short	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 short	advmod
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bend	mark
8	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 short	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the shin bone					short property	tree rules
2	bend	to-infinitive	the shin bone not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The knee is a joint where two bones meet; the shin has no joint in its middle

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knee	det
2	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joint	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joint	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joint	det
5	joint	joint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 meet	advmod
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bones	nummod
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 meet	nsubj
9	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joint	acl:relcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shin	det
12	shin	shin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joint	parataxis
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 joint	det
15	joint	joint	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 middle	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 middle	nmod:poss
18	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the knee	a joint		tree rules
2	meet	present	two bones			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	the shin	no joint	shin's middle	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joint=Patient

Option 3

Muscles in the shin push it straight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 push	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 shin	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shin	det
4	shin	shin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Muscles	nmod
5	push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 push	obj
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	infinitive	Muscles in the shin	shin				straight property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

The knee has no bones inside it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knee	det
2	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 bones	det
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bones	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the knee	no bones		it			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

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