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title: Which arm joint can swing in a full circle? — Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands · tree and pragmatics
description: Which arm joint can swing in a full circle? Test 11 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 11 · Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands

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Which arm joint can swing in a full circle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** arm joint · **What happens:** swing

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This is test 11 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands:t11:1
# text = Which arm joint can swing in a full circle?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	swing	swing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | can | arm joint |  |  |  |  | in a full circle | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in circle=Attribute |

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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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The elbow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands:t11:o1:1
# text = The elbow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The knuckle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands:t11:o2:1
# text = The knuckle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knuckle	knuckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The wrist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands:t11:o3:1
# text = The wrist
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The shoulder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands:t11:o4:1
# text = The shoulder
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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