Test 15 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair

think i got nits, too embarrassed to tell mum

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, i · What happens: think, get, tell · To what, where: nits, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ 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	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 think	ccomp
4	nits	nit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 embarrassed	punct
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 embarrassed	advmod
7	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 think	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 embarrassed	xcomp
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	past	i	nits		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nit=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here		mum	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient

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

Share a hat so they move away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hat	det
3	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Share	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 move	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 move	nsubj
6	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Share	advcl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	imperative	you not said here	a hat					tree rules
2	move away	present	they					away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cut your own hair very short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cut	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 short	advmod
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cut	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	your own hair					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tell her anyway, lice are common and spread until treated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 common	punct
5	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 common	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 common	cop
7	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spread	cc
9	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 common	conj
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 treated	mark
11	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 spread	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	her = she	anyway property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	present	lice		common property	tree rules
3	spread	past	lice not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	treat	participle	lice not said here			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Keep it secret, they go away on their own after a week or two

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	obl
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 week	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 week	det
13	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 two	cc
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 week	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	go away	present	they			their own	week	away property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on own=Location

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