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Test 2 · Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath

Count them: a boy paints a dot at the base of his thumbnail. Nails grow about 3 mm a month. How far up has the dot moved after 2 months?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, boy, Nails, dot · What happens: count, paint, grow, have, move · To what, where: them, dot, base, 3 mm

This is test 2 of lesson 356 «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» 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: Count them: a boy paints a dot at the base of his thumbnail.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Count	obj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 paints	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paints	nsubj
6	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dot	det
8	dot	dot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paints	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 base	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 base	det
11	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paints	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 thumbnail	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 thumbnail	nmod:poss
14	thumbnail	thumbnail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 base	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	paint	present	a boy	a dot		the base of boy's thumbnail			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent dot=Theme at base=Destination

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: Nails grow about 3 mm a month.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 3	advmod
4	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 mm	nummod
5	mm	mm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl:unmarked
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Nails	3 mm			month		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mm=Theme

Sentence 3: How far up has the dot moved after 2 months?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 up	advmod
3	up	up	ADV	_	4 has	advmod
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dot	det
6	dot	dot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moved	nsubj
7	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 has	ccomp
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 months	case
9	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 months	nummod
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moved	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present							tree rules
2	move	past	the dot				month		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

About 1 mm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 1	advmod
2	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 mm	nummod
3	mm	mm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

About 2 cm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 2	advmod
2	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 cm	nummod
3	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

About 6 mm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 6	advmod
2	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 mm	nummod
3	mm	mm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

About 3 mm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 3	advmod
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 mm	nummod
3	mm	mm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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