Test 6 · ★★ · Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and…

«pulling my hair hurts but the hairdresser cutting it don't, that's weird» Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pulling, hairdresser · What happens: pull, hurt, cut, not do, be · To what, where: hair, hairdresser · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 pulling	punct
2	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 hurts	csubj
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulling	obj
5	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 weird	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hairdresser	det
8	hairdresser	hairdresser	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 weird	nsubj
9	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 hairdresser	acl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cutting	obj
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cutting	xcomp
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weird	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 weird	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 weird	cop
16	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hurts	conj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 weird	punct
18	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hurts	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hurts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull in a quote	gerund		my hair		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
2	hurt in a quote	present	pulling			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	cut in a quote	gerund	the hairdresser not said here	hairdresser		tree rules
4	not do in a quote	infinitive	the hairdresser not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	the hairdresser		weird 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

Pulling hair breaks bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 breaks	csubj
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pulling	obj
3	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	gerund		hair					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
2	break	present	Pulling	bones					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Hair has nerves only at the tips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 tips	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 tips	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tips	det
7	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Hair	nerves					tree rules

Option 3

The hairdresser numbs the hair first with a special cream that stops the pain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hairdresser	det
2	hairdresser	hairdresser	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 numbs	nsubj
3	numbs	numb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hair	det
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 numbs	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 numbs	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 cream	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cream	det
9	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cream	amod
10	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 numbs	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 stops	nsubj
12	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cream	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pain	det
14	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	numb	present	the hairdresser	the hair				with a special cream; first property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hair=Experiencer
2	stop	present	a special cream	the pain					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pain=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Pulling tugs the living root with nerves; cutting only cuts dead hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tugs	nsubj
2	tugs	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 root	det
4	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 root	compound
5	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tugs	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 nerves	case
7	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 root	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 cuts	punct
9	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cuts	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 cuts	advmod
11	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tugs	conj
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hair	amod
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cuts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull	gerund			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tug	present	the living root	with nerves	vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent root=Experiencer with nerve=Instrument
3	cut	gerund			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	cut	present	dead hair		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product

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