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Test 4 · ★ · Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear

A girl finds a nit in her hair a week after borrowing a friend's cycling helmet. What is the likely link?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, likely link · What happens: find, borrow, be · To what, where: nit, hair, cycling helmet

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 305 «Catch and release, practising well and sharing sports gear» 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

Sentence 1: A girl finds a nit in her hair a week after borrowing a friend's cycling helmet.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nit	det
5	nit	nit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hair	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hair	nmod:poss
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obl:unmarked
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 borrowing	mark
12	borrowing	borrow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 finds	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 friend	det
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 helmet	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 friend	case
16	cycling	cycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 helmet	compound
17	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 borrowing	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	a girl	a nit		girl's hair	week		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nit=Topic
2	borrow	gerund	a girl not said here	a friend's cycling helmet					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=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.

Sentence 2: What is the likely link?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 link	det
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 link	amod
5	link	link	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the likely link						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Head lice can spread through shared helmets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lice	compound
2	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spread	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
4	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 helmets	case
6	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 helmets	amod
7	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	can	Head lice			shared helmets			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through helmet=Location
2	share	participle							tree rules

Option 2

The lice came from the bike tyres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lice	det
2	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 tyres	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tyres	det
6	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tyres	compound
7	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the lice			the bike tyres			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tyre=Initial_Location

Option 3

Cycling in the wind gives you lice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cycling	cycle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 gives	csubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 wind	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cycling	obl
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 gives	iobj
7	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cycle	gerund				the wind			vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	give	present	Cycling	lice	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient louse=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Helmets make lice grow from sweat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 sweat	case
6	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Helmets	lice					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	lice not said here					from sweat	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from sweat=Patient

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