Test 6 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair

Why does an adult test bath water with an elbow and not a hand?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: bath water

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	conj
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 water	det
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 test	compound
5	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bath	compound
6	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 water	compound
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 elbow	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 elbow	det
10	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hand	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hand	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hand	det
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 elbow	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a bath water				with a elbow and a hand	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality

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

The hand is always too dirty to put in the bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hand	det
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dirty	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dirty	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 dirty	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 dirty	advmod
6	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dirty	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bath	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bath	det
11	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the hand					always, dirty property	tree rules
2	put	to-infinitive	the hand not said here			the bath			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bath=Destination

Option 2

The elbow cannot get scalded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elbow	det
2	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scalded	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 scalded	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 scalded	advmod
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 scalded	aux:pass
6	scalded	scald	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not scald	can · passive		the elbow					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The elbow feels heat better, so it is a fairer test

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elbow	det
2	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feels	nsubj
3	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feels	obj
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 feels	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 test	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 test	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 test	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 test	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 test	det
11	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 test	amod
12	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feels	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	the elbow	heat				good property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	is a	present	elbow	a fairer test					tree rules

Option 4

Elbows are the strongest part of the arm and do not mind heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 part	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 part	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 arm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 arm	det
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mind	cc
10	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 mind	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mind	advmod
12	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 part	conj
13	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mind	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Elbows	the strongest part				of the arm	tree rules
2	not mind	infinitive · do-support	Elbows not said here	heat					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme

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