Test 16 · ★ · Teeth, nails, baths and toilets

my brother bites his nails till they bleed

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, nails · What happens: bite, bleed · To what, where: nails

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 208 «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bites	nsubj
3	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nails	nmod:poss
5	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bites	obj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 bleed	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bleed	nsubj
8	bleed	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bites	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	my brother	brother's nails					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient
2	bleed	present	nails = nail						vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a grown-up, the bleeding bits can get infected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 grown	det
3	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 grown	compound
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bits	det
8	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bits	compound
9	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
12	infected	infected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a grown					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient
2	get	can	the bleeding bits					infected property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Put tape on his mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	tape	tape	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 mouth	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mouth	nmod:poss
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	tape		his mouth			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent tape=Theme on mouth=Destination

Option 3

It's fine, nails grow back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grow	punct
5	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	parataxis
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	grow back	present	nails						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Bite yours too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	1 Bite	obj
3	too	too	ADV	_	1 Bite	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	imperative	you not said here	yours					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent your=Patient

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