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title: A doctor looks at an X-ray and sees a dark line across a white bone.… — Cells, bones and muscles · tree and pragmatics
description: A doctor looks at an X-ray and sees a dark line across a white bone. What does it show? Test 8 of lesson 64 «Cells, bones and muscles» 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 right.
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# Test 8 · Cells, bones and muscles

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A doctor looks at an X-ray and sees a dark line across a white bone. What does it show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** doctor · **What happens:** look, see, show · **To what, where:** dark line, white bone

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This is test 8 of lesson 64 «Cells, bones and muscles» 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/64-cells-bones-and-muscles/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A doctor looks at an X-ray and sees a dark line across a white bone.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:64-cells-bones-and-muscles:t8:1
# text = A doctor looks at an X-ray and sees a dark line across a white bone.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	X	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	across	across	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | a doctor |  |  |  |  | at a X ray | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ray=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present | a doctor *not said here* | a dark line |  | a white bone |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer line=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does it show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:64-cells-bones-and-muscles:t8:2
# text = What does it show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A healthy growing bone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:64-cells-bones-and-muscles:t8:o1:1
# text = A healthy growing bone
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A spot where the X-ray ran out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:64-cells-bones-and-muscles:t8:o2:1
# text = A spot where the X-ray ran out
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	X	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run out** | past | a spot |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A break in the bone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:64-cells-bones-and-muscles:t8:o3:1
# text = A break in the bone
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A blood vessel in the arm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:64-cells-bones-and-muscles:t8:o4:1
# text = A blood vessel in the arm
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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