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Test 9 · Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn

In a snowy ski resort a girl gets sunburnt on a cold day. How?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sunburnt · To what, where: girl, snowy ski resort

This is test 9 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

Sentence 1: In a snowy ski resort a girl gets sunburnt on a cold day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 resort	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 resort	det
3	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 resort	amod
4	ski	ski	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resort	compound
5	resort	resort	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sunburnt	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sunburnt	nsubj:pass
8	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sunburnt	aux:pass
9	sunburnt	sunburnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 day	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sunburnt	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sunburnt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sunburnt	present · passive		a girl		a snowy ski resort	day		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.

Sentence 2: How?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The very cold air burns the skin just like a hot flame does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 cold	advmod
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 air	amod
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burns	nsubj
5	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skin	det
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burns	obj
8	just	just	ADV	_	12 flame	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 flame	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 flame	det
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flame	amod
12	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burns	obl
13	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 burns	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	the cold air	the skin				like a hot flame	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
2	do	present	the cold air not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Snow is full of salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 salt	case
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Snow					of salt; full property	tree rules

Option 3

She only got cold, not burnt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 burnt	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 burnt	advmod
7	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	She					cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not burnt	participle	She not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Snow reflects the sun's ultraviolet light back onto her skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflects	nsubj
2	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sun	case
6	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflects	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	2 reflects	advmod
9	onto	onto	ADP	_	11 skin	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 skin	nmod:poss
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflects	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	present	Snow	the sun's ultraviolet light		Snow's skin			tree rules
2	light		the sun						nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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