Test 16 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair

skipped showers all week cos its winter

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: skip

This is test 16 · ★ 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	skipped	skip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 showers	amod
2	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 week	det
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showers	nmod:unmarked
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	7 winter	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 winter	nmod:poss
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2 «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 · ← Mova's choice

In winter you never get dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 winter	case
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	you				winter	dirty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You still need to wash, sweat and dirt cause smells and sore skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 need	advmod
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wash	mark
5	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 need	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sweat	punct
7	sweat	sweat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wash	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cause	cc
9	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cause	nsubj
10	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 need	conj
11	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cause	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 skin	cc
13	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 skin	amod
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smells	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	need	present	You		still	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	wash not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sweat	infinitive	You not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cause	present	dirt	smells and sore skin		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition smell=Patient

Option 3

Only wash when it is hot outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 wash	advmod
2	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 hot	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hot	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hot	cop
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wash	ccomp
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 hot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here						vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					hot, outside property	tree rules

Option 4

Cold weather kills all germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 weather	amod
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	nsubj
3	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 germs	det
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kills	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Cold weather	all germs					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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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