Test 11 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair

can i dry my hair with the hairdryer while im in the bath

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: dry · To what, where: hair, bath

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 76 «Washing your body and caring for your hair» 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	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 dry	aux
2	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dry	nsubj
3	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hair	nmod:poss
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dry	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hairdryer	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hairdryer	det
8	hairdryer	hairdryer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dry	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 im	case
10	im	im	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dry	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 bath	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bath	det
13	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	can	i	my hair		the bath		with the hairdryer; while im	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hair=Patient with hairdryer=Instrument

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

Yes, if your hands are dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 dry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 dry	mark
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dry	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dry	cop
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	your hands					dry property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, if the bath is nearly empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 empty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 empty	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bath	det
5	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 empty	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 empty	cop
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 empty	advmod
8	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bath					empty, nearly property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, if you hold it up high, well away from the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 hold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 hold	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hold	nsubj
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 hold	compound:prt
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hold	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 away	punct
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	5 hold	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	present	you	it				away, high property	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, electricity near water can kill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 electricity	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kill	nsubj
4	near	near	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 electricity	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 kill	aux
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	can	electricity near water						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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