Test 3 · Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up

«Grandad says he went white overnight when the dog bit him» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad, dog · What happens: say, go, bite, be · To what, where: Grandad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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	_	3 says	punct
2	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	xcomp
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 bit	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bit	nsubj
11	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 right	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bit	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 bit	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	5 went	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Grandad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	past	Grandad		overnight, white property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bite in a quote	past	the dog	Grandad		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	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

Yes, but only the hairs on the left side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 hairs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 hairs	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 hairs	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hairs	det
6	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
9	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 side	amod
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hairs	nmod

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

Option 2

Yes, a really big fright bleaches every single hair on the head at once

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 bleaches	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fright	det
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fright	amod
6	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bleaches	nsubj
7	bleaches	bleach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 hair	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hair	amod
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bleaches	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 head	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 head	det
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hair	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 bleaches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleach	present	a big fright	every single hair		the head			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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

Hair already grown cannot lose its colour overnight; grey comes slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lose	nsubj
2	already	already	ADV	_	3 grown	advmod
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hair	acl
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lose	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 lose	advmod
6	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 colour	nmod:poss
8	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lose	obj
9	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	6 lose	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 comes	punct
11	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	nsubj
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lose	parataxis
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle		Hair not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not lose	can	Hair	Hair's colour	overnight property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Eventuality
3	come	present	grey		slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

No, his hair turned black overnight instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turned	xcomp
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	his hair					black, instead, overnight property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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