Test 3 · Medicines, doctors and hospitals
A girl falls and her wrist hurts badly. How can the doctor find out if a bone is broken without cutting?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, wrist, doctor · What happens: fall, hurt, find out, break, cut · To what, where: bone
This is test 3 of lesson 94 «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» 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 girl falls and her wrist hurts badly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hurts | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hurts | nsubj |
| 7 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 falls | conj |
| 8 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 hurts | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 falls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | a girl | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurt | present | girl's wrist | badly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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: How can the doctor find out if a bone is broken without cutting?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 find | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doctor | det |
| 4 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 find | compound:prt |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 broken | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bone | det |
| 9 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 broken | aux:pass |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 find | ccomp |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 cutting | mark |
| 13 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 broken | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | can | the doctor | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | break a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a bone | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cut | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
By taking an X-ray
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 taking | mark |
| 2 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ray | det |
| 4 | X | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ray | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 X | punct |
| 6 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | a X ray | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
By listening with a stethoscope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 listening | mark |
| 2 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 stethoscope | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stethoscope | det |
| 5 | stethoscope | stethoscope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listening | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | gerund | with a stethoscope | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
By measuring her temperature
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 measuring | mark |
| 2 | measuring | measure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 temperature | nmod:poss |
| 4 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 measuring | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | gerund | her temperature | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme temperature=Value |
Option 4
By giving her an antibiotic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 giving | mark |
| 2 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 giving | iobj |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 antibiotic | det |
| 5 | antibiotic | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 giving | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | a antibiotic | her = she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient antibiotic=Theme |
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