Test 9 · The skeleton and muscles
What does the spinal cord have around it for protection?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: spinal cord · What happens: have · To what, where: it
This is test 9 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 | 6 have | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cord | det |
| 4 | spinal | spinal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cord | amod |
| 5 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 protection | case |
| 10 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | the spinal cord | it | for protection | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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
The bones of the backbone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bones | det |
| 2 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 backbone | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 backbone | det |
| 5 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bones | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The two long thigh bones of the legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bones | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 bones | nummod |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bones | amod |
| 4 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bones | compound |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 legs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 legs | det |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bones | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The hard bones of the skull
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bones | det |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bones | amod |
| 3 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 skull | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skull | det |
| 6 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bones | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The curved ribs of the chest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ribs | det |
| 2 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ribs | amod |
| 3 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 chest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chest | det |
| 6 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ribs | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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