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title: Ruby put ice cubes straight on her bare knee for an hour. What's the… — Sprains, strains and bruises · tree and pragmatics
description: Ruby put ice cubes straight on her bare knee for an hour. What's the problem? Test 2 of lesson 3 «Sprains, strains and bruises» 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · Sprains, strains and bruises

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Ruby put ice cubes straight on her bare knee for an hour. What's the problem?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ruby, problem · **What happens:** put, be · **To what, where:** ice cubes, bare knee

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This is test 2 of lesson 3 «Sprains, strains and bruises» 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/3-sprains-strains-and-bruises/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ruby put ice cubes straight on her bare knee for an hour.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:t2:1
# text = Ruby put ice cubes straight on her bare knee for an hour.
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cubes	cube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Ruby | ice cubes |  | Ruby's bare knee | hour |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cube=Theme on knee=Destination |

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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's the problem?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:t2:2
# text = What's the problem?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the problem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ice has no effect on a knee at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:t2:o1:1
# text = Ice has no effect on a knee at all
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Ice | no effect |  | a knee |  | at all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Ice on bare skin for long can cause a cold burn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:t2:o2:1
# text = Ice on bare skin for long can cause a cold burn
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | can | Ice on bare skin | a cold burn |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition burn=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ice turns the knee green after an hour or so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:t2:o3:1
# text = Ice turns the knee green after an hour or so
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Ice | the knee |  |  | hour | green *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knee=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ice on a knee makes the bruise come out much bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:3-sprains-strains-and-bruises:t2:o4:1
# text = Ice on a knee makes the bruise come out much bigger
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bruise	bruise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	xcomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Ice on a knee | the bruise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come out** | present | the bruise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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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