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title: What would be hard to do if your thumb could not touch your fingerti… — Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands · tree and pragmatics
description: What would be hard to do if your thumb could not touch your fingertips? Test 10 of lesson 358 «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands

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What would be hard to do if your thumb could not touch your fingertips?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** thumb · **What happens:** be, do, not touch · **To what, where:** fingertips

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This is test 10 of lesson 358 «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands:t10:1
# text = What would be hard to do if your thumb could not touch your fingertips?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **touch** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | your thumb | your fingertips |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fingertip=Co-Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Bend your elbow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands:t10:o1:1
# text = Bend your elbow
1	Bend	bend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | imperative | you *not said here* | your elbow |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent elbow=Material |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Swing your whole arm round in a big circle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands:t10:o2:1
# text = Swing your whole arm round in a big circle
1	Swing	swing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | imperative | you *not said here* | your whole arm |  | a big circle |  | round *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme in circle=Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Pick up a small coin or hold a pencil well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands:t10:o3:1
# text = Pick up a small coin or hold a pencil well
1	Pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | imperative | you *not said here* | a small coin |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Topic |
| 2 | **hold** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a pencil |  |  |  | well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Stand on one leg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands:t10:o4:1
# text = Stand on one leg
1	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | one leg |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |

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**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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