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title: Which is true about growth plate breaks? — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about growth plate breaks? Test 7 of lesson 1 «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine 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 7 · Snap! Breaking a bone

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Which is true about growth plate breaks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 7 of lesson 1 «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine 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/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:1-snap-breaking-a-bone:t7:1
# text = Which is true about growth plate breaks?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about plate breaks; true *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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They always stop the bone growing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:1-snap-breaking-a-bone:t7:o1:1
# text = They always stop the bone growing
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | They | the bone |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Most heal completely, but doctors may check them later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:1-snap-breaking-a-bone:t7:o2:1
# text = Most heal completely, but doctors may check them later
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heal	heal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | present | Most |  |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **check** | may | doctors | them *= they* |  |  |  | late *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They only happen to adults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:1-snap-breaking-a-bone:t7:o3:1
# text = They only happen to adults
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | They |  |  |  |  | to adults | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They never need an X-ray

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:1-snap-breaking-a-bone:t7:o4:1
# text = They never need an X-ray
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|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	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present | They | a X ray |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ray=Theme |

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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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