Test 1 · Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up

«got my hair cut short so it grows back thicker, everyone knows that» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hair, everyone · What happens: get, cut, grow back, know, be · To what, where: hair, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 71 «Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up» 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 got	punct
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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 got	obj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 got	xcomp
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cut	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 grows	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grows	nsubj
9	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 got	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 grows	advmod
11	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 grows	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knows	punct
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 knows	nsubj
14	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 knows	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 knows	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 knows	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past		my hair		tree rules
2	cut in a quote	participle	my hair not said here		short property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	grow back in a quote	present	hair		thick property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know in a quote	present	everyone	that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
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

No, cutting hair stops it growing for a month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 stops	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stops	punct
3	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stops	csubj
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cutting	obj
5	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stops	obj
7	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stops	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 month	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 month	det
10	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cut	gerund		hair		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product
2	stop	present	cutting	hair		tree rules
3	grow	gerund	cutting not said here		month	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, but only if you cut it at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 cut	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 cut	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 cut	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 cut	nsubj
7	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cut	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	you	it			night		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That's a myth; scissors never touch the follicle where hair grows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 myth	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 touch	punct
6	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 touch	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 touch	advmod
8	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 follicle	det
10	follicle	follicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touch	obj
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 grows	advmod
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grows	nsubj
13	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 follicle	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a myth	tree rules
2	not touch	present	scissors	the follicle	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme follicle=Co-Theme
3	grow	present	hair		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, each cut doubles the number of hairs on your head, so keep cutting

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 doubles	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 cut	det
4	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doubles	nsubj
5	doubles	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 number	det
7	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doubles	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 hairs	case
9	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 number	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hairs	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 keep	advmod
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 doubles	advcl
16	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	double	present	each cut	the number of hairs on your head	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent number=Patient
2	keep	infinitive	each cut not said here		tree rules
3	cut	gerund	each cut not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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