Test 9 · Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath

Why do toenails take longer to grow out than fingernails?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toenails · What happens: take, grow out

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 take	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	toenails	toenail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 take	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grow	mark
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 grow	compound:prt
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 fingernails	case
10	fingernails	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grow	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · do-support	toenails					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	grow out	to-infinitive	toenails not said here					than fingernails	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Toenails grow backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toenails	toenail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Toenails					backwards property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Toenails grow more slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toenails	toenail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 slowly	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Toenails					slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Toenails stop growing in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toenails	toenail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Toenails						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	Toenails not said here				winter		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Toenails are much longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toenails	toenail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 longer	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Toenails	advmod

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

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