Test 4 · ★★ · Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and…

«shaving me legs makes the hair grow back thick and black innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: shaving · What happens: shave, make, be · To what, where: me, hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 shaving	punct
2	shaving	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 makes	csubj
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 shaving	obj
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shaving	obj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hair	det
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
8	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thick	cop
9	back	back	ADV	_	10 thick	advmod
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 innit	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 black	cc
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thick	conj
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	xcomp
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 makes	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 makes	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shave in a quote	gerund		me		tree rules
2	make in a quote	present	shaving	the hair		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present			thick property	tree rules
4	be in a quote					tree rules
5	is	present			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

Yes, every single shave makes it grow back twice as thick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 shave	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shave	amod
5	shave	shave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 makes	obj
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 makes	xcomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 grow	advmod
10	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 thick	advmod
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 thick	advmod
12	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	every single shave	it					tree rules
2	grow back	infinitive						thick property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, but only in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 summer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 summer	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 summer	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

No, shaved hair never grows back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 shaved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grows	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 grows	advmod
6	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 grows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	participle							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not grow back	present	shaved hair						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it only looks blunt because it is cut straight across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 looks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looks	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 looks	advmod
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looks	xcomp
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 cut	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cut	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	aux:pass
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 looks	advcl
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 across	advmod
12	across	across	ADV	_	10 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	it					blunt property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	cut	present · passive		it				across property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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