Test 10 · ★ · The brain, nerves and the five senses

why'd my hand jump off the hot pan before i even thought

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hand, i · What happens: jump off, think · To what, where: hot pan

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 34 «The brain, nerves and the five senses» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 jump	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 jump	punct
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jump	nsubj
5	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	9 pan	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pan	det
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pan	amod
9	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jump	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 thought	mark
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 thought	advmod
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jump	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	infinitive	my hand	the hot pan					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pan=Trajectory
2	think speech: other	past	i						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The hand muscles think for themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 muscles	det
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 muscles	compound
3	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 themselves	case
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	the hand muscles					for muscles = muscle	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The pan pushed the hand away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pan	det
2	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	nsubj
3	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hand	det
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 pushed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push away	past	the pan	the hand				away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was a reflex, a quick automatic action

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reflex	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reflex	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 reflex	det
4	reflex	reflex	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 action	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 action	det
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 action	amod
8	automatic	automatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 action	amod
9	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reflex	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a reflex and a quick automatic action					tree rules

Option 4

The skin melted for a moment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skin	det
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 skin	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 moment	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	participle		the skin not said here			moment		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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