Exam question 1 · Washing your body and caring for your hair

Identify the principal reason for which bath water is run cold first and tested by an adult before a child enters.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: identify, run, test, enter · To what, where: principal reason, bath water

This is exam question 1 of lesson 76 «Washing your body and caring for your hair» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 run	obl
7	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	compound
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 run	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 run	aux:pass
10	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 run	xcomp
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 run	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tested	cc
14	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 run	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 adult	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 adult	det
17	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tested	obl
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 enters	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 child	det
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enters	nsubj
21	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tested	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	run	present · passive		bath water	for the principal reason; cold, first property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for which=Beneficiary
3	test	participle			by a adult	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	enter	present	a child			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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

Hot water causes the soap to stop working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 causes	nsubj
3	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soap	det
5	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 causes	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 causes	advcl
8	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cause	present	Hot water	the soap	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition soap=Patient
2	stop	to-infinitive	Hot water not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	work	gerund	Hot water not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hot water may scald the skin severely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scald	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 scald	aux
4	scald	scald	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skin	det
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scald	obj
7	severely	severely	ADV	_	4 scald	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scald	may	Hot water	the skin				severely property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

Option 3

Cold water makes the bath fill more quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bath	det
5	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	xcomp
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 quickly	advmod
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Cold water	the bath				quickly property	tree rules
2	fill	present	the bath not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Cold water first keeps the bath cleaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 keeps	advmod
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cleaner	det
6	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cleaner	compound
7	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Cold water	the bath cleaner				first property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaner=Theme

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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