Test 5 · The skeleton and muscles
A girl broke her wrist, and after some weeks in a cast it was whole again. Why?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, wrist · What happens: break, be · To what, where: wrist
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: A girl broke her wrist, and after some weeks in a cast it was whole again.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whole | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 whole | cc |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 weeks | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 weeks | det |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 whole | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cast | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cast | det |
| 13 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weeks | nmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 whole | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 whole | cop |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 broke | conj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 whole | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | a girl | girl's wrist | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wrist=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | wrist | again; week | whole property | tree rules |
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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
The muscle took over the job of the bone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 muscle | det |
| 2 | muscle | muscle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 job | det |
| 6 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bone | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bone | det |
| 9 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 job | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take over | past | the muscle | the job of the bone | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme | ||||
| 2 | job | the bone | nom job «act intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 2
The cast glued the bone together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cast | det |
| 2 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glued | nsubj |
| 3 | glued | glue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bone | det |
| 5 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glued | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 glued | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glue | past | the cast | the bone | together property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Living bone grew and joined the break
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bone | amod |
| 2 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 joined | cc |
| 5 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 break | det |
| 7 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joined | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Living bone | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | join | past | Living bone not said here | the break | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Patient |
Option 4
A new bone grew in another place
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bone | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bone | amod |
| 3 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | a new bone | another place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
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