Test 3 · ★ · The heart, blood and breathing
A nurse presses two fingers on your wrist and counts. What is she measuring?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nurse · What happens: press, count, measure · To what, where: two fingers, wrist
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 32 «The heart, blood and breathing» 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 nurse presses two fingers on your wrist and counts.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 nurse | det |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 presses | nsubj |
| 3 | presses | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fingers | nummod |
| 5 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 presses | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 wrist | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 presses | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 counts | cc |
| 10 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 presses | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 presses | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | present | a nurse | two fingers | your wrist | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | |||
| 2 | count | present | a nurse not said here | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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: What is she measuring?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 measuring | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 measuring | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 measuring | nsubj |
| 4 | measuring | measure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 measuring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | present · progressive | nurse | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
How deep you breathe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 deep | advmod |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 breathe | xcomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 breathe | nsubj |
| 4 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present | you | deep property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
How fast your heart beats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 fast | advmod |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 beats | advmod |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beats | nsubj |
| 5 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | your heart | fast property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
How strong your bones are
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 strong | advmod |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bones | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 strong | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 strong | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | your bones | strong property | tree rules |
Option 4
How hot your blood is
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 hot | advmod |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 blood | nmod:poss |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hot | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hot | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | your blood | hot property | tree rules |
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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