Test 9 · ★ · The heart, blood and breathing
A cut finger gets infected and white blood cells gather there. Why?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cut finger, infected blood cells · What happens: get, gather
This is test 9 · ★ 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 cut finger gets infected and white blood cells gather there.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 finger | det |
| 2 | cut | cut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 finger | amod |
| 3 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | infected | infected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cells | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 white | cc |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 infected | conj |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cells | compound |
| 9 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gather | nsubj |
| 10 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gets | parataxis |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 gather | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a cut finger | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | gather | present | infected blood cells | there | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
They digest the dirt for food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 digest | nsubj |
| 2 | digest | digest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dirt | det |
| 4 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 digest | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 food | case |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 digest | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | digest | present | They | the dirt | for food | tree rules |
Option 2
They make the finger grow back faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 finger | det |
| 4 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 finger | acl:relcl |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 make | advmod |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | They | the finger | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset finger=Product | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | the finger not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They fight the germs that got in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fight | nsubj |
| 2 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 germs | det |
| 4 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fight | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 germs | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | They | the germs | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | get in | past | the germs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
They carry oxygen to the nail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 nail | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nail | det |
| 6 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | They | oxygen | the nail | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme to nail=Destination |
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