Test 10 · Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn

«snake changes its skin all at once, so we must do it too, just slower innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake, we, slower innit · What happens: change, do, be · To what, where: skin

This is test 10 of lesson 353 «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 changes	punct
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changes	nsubj
3	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 skin	nmod:poss
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changes	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 once	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 changes	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 do	advmod
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 changes	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obj
15	too	too	ADV	_	13 do	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 innit	punct
17	just	just	ADV	_	19 innit	advmod
18	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 innit	amod
19	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	parataxis
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 innit	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 right	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 right	cop
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 innit	acl:relcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 changes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change in a quote	present	snake	snake's skin	once property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
2	do in a quote	must	we	skin		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	is	present	slower innit		right property	tree rules

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

Option 1

We lose all our skin each night in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 skin	det:predet
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 skin	nmod:poss
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl:unmarked
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	We	our skin		bed	night		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Eventuality

Option 2

We never lose any skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 lose	advmod
3	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 skin	det
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lose	present	We	any skin					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

We change our whole skin in one go, once a year in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 skin	nmod:poss
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 skin	amod
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 go	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 go	nummod
8	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 once	punct
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 change	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 once	obl:unmarked
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 summer	case
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	We	our whole skin		one go	summer		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

We lose old skin bit by bit as tiny flakes all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bit	amod
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	compound
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 bit	case
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 flakes	case
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flakes	amod
10	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 time	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	We	old skin bit			time	by bit; as tiny flakes	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Eventuality

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