Test 9 · ★★ · Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and…

«Grandad's grey cos his hair's dusty from the shed» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	4 grey	punct
2	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grey	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grey	cop
4	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 dusty	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dusty	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 hair	case
9	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 right	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 shed	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shed	det
12	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dusty	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 dusty	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grey	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Grandad					grey property	tree rules
2	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, the dust from the shed slowly gets stuck in his hair and makes it grey

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 dust	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dust	det
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 shed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shed	det
7	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dust	nmod
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	9 gets	advmod
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gets	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hair	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hair	nmod:poss
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuck	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 makes	cc
15	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gets	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 makes	obj
17	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the dust from the shed					slowly, stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	make	present	the dust from the shed not said here	hair				grey property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 2

Grey comes from not washing enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 washing	mark
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 washing	advmod
5	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 comes	advcl
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 washing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Grey						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not wash	gerund	Grey not said here					enough property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Grey hair grows when the root's colour cells stop making melanin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hair	amod
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 stop	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 root	det
6	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cells	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 root	case
8	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cells	compound
9	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stop	nsubj
10	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grows	advcl
11	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stop	xcomp
12	melanin	melanin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grow	present	Grey hair		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	present	the root's colour cells		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	make	gerund	the root's colour cells not said here	melanin	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset melanin=Product

Option 4

Grey hair is dead and the dark hair is alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hair	amod
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 alive	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hair	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 alive	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 alive	cop
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grey hair					dead property	tree rules
2	is	present	the dark hair					alive property	tree rules

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