Test 4 · The skeleton and muscles

What would happen if we had no joints at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: joints, all

This is test 4 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	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 had	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 joints	det
8	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 had	obl
11	?	?	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	we	no joints		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joint=Patient

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

We could not bend our arms, legs or back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bend	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bend	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bend	advmod
4	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bend	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 legs	punct
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 arms	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 back	cc
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arms	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bend	could	We	our arms and legs or back					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent arm=Material

Option 2

Nothing, joints are only for decoration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 joints	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 decoration	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 decoration	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 decoration	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 decoration	case
7	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing joints					for decoration	tree rules

Option 3

We would bend more easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bend	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bend	aux
3	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 bend	advmod
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 bend	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	would	We					easily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Our muscles would become stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 muscles	nmod:poss
2	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Our muscles					strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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