Test 8 · Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn

Why do the soles of your feet need thicker skin than your eyelids?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soles · What happens: do, need · To what, where: thicker skin

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 need	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soles	det
4	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 need	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 soles	nmod
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 skin	amod
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 need	obj
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 eyelids	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyelids	nmod:poss
13	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 skin	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the soles of your feet not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	need	present	the soles of your feet	thicker skin				than your eyelids	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

They press on the ground with your whole weight every step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 press	nsubj
2	press	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ground	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 press	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 weight	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 weight	nmod:poss
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 weight	amod
9	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 press	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 step	det
11	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 press	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	They	every step				with your whole weight; on the ground	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on ground=Theme

Option 2

Feet need to keep the sweat in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 keep	mark
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sweat	det
6	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	4 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Feet						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Feet not said here	the sweat					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweat=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They are further from the brain, so they need extra skin to feel things

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brain	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brain	cop
3	further	further	ADV	_	6 brain	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 brain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brain	det
6	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 need	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 need	nsubj
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brain	parataxis
11	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 skin	amod
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 feel	mark
14	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 need	xcomp
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	They		the brain	further property	tree rules
2	need	present	they	extra skin			tree rules
3	feel not said to happen	to-infinitive	extra skin not said here	things			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 4

Eyelids are made of a different organ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 organ	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 organ	det
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 organ	amod
7	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Eyelids				of a different organ	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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