Test 4 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair

A girl wants to dry her hair while standing next to a full bath. What is the danger?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, danger · What happens: want, dry, stand, be · To what, where: hair

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl wants to dry her hair while standing next to a full bath.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dry	mark
5	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dry	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 standing	mark
9	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dry	advcl
10	next	next	ADV	_	9 standing	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 bath	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bath	det
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bath	amod
14	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 next	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	a girl			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	dry not said to happen	to-infinitive	a girl not said here	girl's hair		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hair=Result
3	stand	gerund	a girl not said here		next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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.

Sentence 2: What is the danger?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 danger	det
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the danger						tree rules

The options

Option 1

The hot air could make all the bath water boil and burn her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 air	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 air	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 boil	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boil	det
8	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boil	compound
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boil	compound
10	boil	boil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 burn	cc
12	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could	the hot air	all bath water boil					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boil=Product
2	burn	infinitive	the hot air not said here	air					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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

If the dryer touches the water, the electricity could kill her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 touches	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dryer	det
3	dryer	dryer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touches	nsubj
4	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kill	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touches	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 touches	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 electricity	det
9	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kill	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 kill	aux
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch a condition, not said to happen	present	the dryer	the water					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-Theme
2	kill	could	the electricity	dryer					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

There is no danger if the dryer is new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 danger	det
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 new	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dryer	det
7	dryer	dryer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 new	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 new	cop
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 is	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no danger			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the dryer					new property	tree rules

Option 4

The steam would break the dryer slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 steam	det
2	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 break	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 break	aux
4	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dryer	det
6	dryer	dryer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 break	obj
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 break	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	would	the steam	the dryer				slowly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dryer=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/t4/