Exam question 4 · Washing your body and caring for your hair

Determine the principal reason for which towels, combs and hats are not shared between persons.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, not share · To what, where: principal reason, towels

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	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 Determine	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 shared	obl
7	towels	towel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shared	nsubj:pass
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 combs	punct
9	combs	comb	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 towels	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hats	cc
11	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 towels	conj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 shared	aux:pass
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 shared	advmod
14	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
15	between	between	ADP	_	16 persons	case
16	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shared	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	not share	present · passive		towels and combs and hats				for the principal reason; between persons	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

Combs and hats wear out more swiftly when shared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Combs	comb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wear	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 hats	cc
3	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Combs	conj
4	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 wear	compound:prt
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 swiftly	advmod
7	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	4 wear	advmod
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 shared	mark
9	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wear	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear out	present	Combs and hats					swiftly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	share	participle	Combs and hats not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Shared towels become wet too quickly to use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 towels	amod
2	towels	towel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
3	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 quickly	advmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 wet	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 use	mark
8	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wet	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	share	participle			tree rules
2	become	present	Shared towels	wet property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	use	to-infinitive	Shared towels not said here		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Sharing such items is forbidden by school rules alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 forbidden	csubj:pass
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 items	amod
3	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sharing	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 forbidden	aux:pass
5	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 rules	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rules	compound
8	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forbidden	obl
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 forbidden	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	gerund		such items					tree rules
2	forbid	present · passive	Sharing					by school rules; alone property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Germs, skin infections and head lice spread through them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 infections	punct
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 infections	compound
4	infections	infection	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Germs	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lice	cc
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lice	compound
7	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Germs	conj
8	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	through	through	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	present	Germs and skin infections and head lice					through lice = louse	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Location

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