Test 4 · ★ · The heart, blood and breathing

If the arteries to a leg were blocked, what would the leg lose first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: leg · What happens: block, lose · To what, where: arteries

This is test 4 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 blocked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 arteries	det
3	arteries	artery	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blocked	nsubj:pass
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 leg	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leg	det
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arteries	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 blocked	aux:pass
8	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 lose	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 blocked	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 lose	obj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 lose	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leg	det
13	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lose	nsubj
14	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 lose	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the arteries to a leg					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lose	would	the leg					first property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Its nerves only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nerves	nmod:poss
2	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 nerves	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Its skin colour forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 colour	nmod:poss
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colour	compound
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 colour	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Its bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bones	nmod:poss
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its supply of oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 supply	nmod:poss
2	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 oxygen	case
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 supply	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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