Test 7 · Medicines, doctors and hospitals
A doctor puts a cold metal disc on your back and asks you to breathe deeply. What is she checking?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctor · What happens: put, ask, breathe, check · To what, where: cold metal disc, back, you
This is test 7 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 doctor puts a cold metal disc on your back and asks you to breathe deeply.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puts | nsubj |
| 3 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 disc | det |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 disc | amod |
| 6 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disc | compound |
| 7 | disc | disc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puts | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puts | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asks | cc |
| 12 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 puts | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 asks | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 breathe | mark |
| 15 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asks | xcomp |
| 16 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 15 breathe | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 puts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | a doctor | a cold metal disc | your back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent disc=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | a doctor not said here | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | breathe not said to happen | to-infinitive | a doctor not said here | deeply property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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.
Sentence 2: What is she checking?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 checking | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 checking | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 checking | nsubj |
| 4 | checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 checking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | present · progressive | doctor | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The strength of your bones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 strength | det |
| 2 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bones | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bones | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 strength | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
How tall you are
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 tall | advmod |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 tall | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tall | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | tall property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The sounds of your lungs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sounds | det |
| 2 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lungs | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lungs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sounds | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Your body temperature
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 temperature | nmod:poss |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 temperature | compound |
| 3 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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