Test 11 · ★★ · Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and…

Why does a balloon trick work best on a dry winter day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, work · To what, where: balloon trick

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 355 «Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey» 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 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 work	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 trick	det
4	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trick	compound
5	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 work	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 day	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
11	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	compound
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a balloon trick					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality
2	work	present					day	well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dry air lets static charges build up instead of leaking away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lets	nsubj
3	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	static	static	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 charges	amod
5	charges	charge	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 build	nsubj
6	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lets	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 build	compound:prt
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 leaking	mark
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	leaking	leak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 build	advcl
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 leaking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	let	present	Dry air		tree rules
2	build up	present	static charges		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	leak away	gerund	static charges not said here	away property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 2

Winter hair is longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hair	compound
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 longer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 longer	cop
4	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Winter hair					long property	tree rules

Option 3

Balloons are bigger in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Balloons	balloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bigger	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bigger	cop
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Balloons				winter	big property	tree rules

Option 4

Cold air makes each hair lighter, so it lifts up more easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hair	det
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lifts	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 lifts	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lifts	nsubj
10	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 lifts	compound:prt
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 easily	advmod
13	easily	easily	ADV	_	10 lifts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Cold air	each hair				light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product
2	lift up	present	air					easily property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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