Test 14 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair

toes itchy n peeling after footy, its nothin

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: toes · What happens: peel

This is test 14 · ★ 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	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	itchy	itchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peeling	amod
3	n	n	ADV	_	4 peeling	advmod
4	peeling	peel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 toes	acl
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 footy	case
6	footy	footy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 peeling	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nothin	punct
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nothin	nmod:poss
9	nothin	nothin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 toes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peel	gerund	toes and footy's nothin not said here				after footy		vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Itching means the skin is healing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Itching	itching	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 healing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 healing	aux
6	healing	heal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Itching						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	heal	present · progressive	the skin						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

It may be athlete's foot, wash, dry between toes and tell a parent

The tree, 14 words

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	6 foot	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 foot	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 foot	cop
4	athlete	athlete	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 athlete	case
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wash	punct
8	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 foot	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dry	punct
10	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wash	conj
11	between	between	ADP	_	12 toes	case
12	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dry	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wash	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 parent	det
16	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	may	It	athlete's foot			tree rules
2	wash	infinitive					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dry	infinitive				between toes	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a parent		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

Option 3

It means your feet are still growing

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feet	nmod:poss
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 growing	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 growing	aux
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 growing	advmod
7	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow	present · progressive	your feet				still		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Wear the same wet socks to stop it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 socks	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 socks	amod
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 socks	amod
5	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wear	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wear	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	imperative	you not said here	the same wet socks					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sock=Theme
2	stop	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

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