Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Everyday / Washing your body and caring for your… / t7

Test 7 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair

Two friends at a sleepover want to use one towel to save washing. What is better?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two friends · What happens: want, use, save, be · To what, where: one towel, washing

This is test 7 · ★ 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: Two friends at a sleepover want to use one towel to save washing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 friends	nummod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 want	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 sleepover	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sleepover	det
5	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 friends	nmod
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 use	mark
8	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 towel	nummod
10	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 save	mark
12	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 use	advcl
13	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 save	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	infinitive	Two friends at a sleepover						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	Two friends at a sleepover not said here	one towel					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent towel=Patient
3	save	to-infinitive	Two friends at a sleepover not said here	washing					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent washing=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.

Sentence 2: What is better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 better	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

They dry themselves with their pyjamas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dry	nsubj
2	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 dry	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 pyjamas	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pyjamas	nmod:poss
6	pyjamas	pyjama	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	present	They	themselves = they				with their pyjamas	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient with pyjama=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Each uses their own towel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 towel	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 towel	amod
5	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Each	their own towel					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent towel=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They share it but use different sides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 share	nsubj
2	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 share	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 use	cc
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 share	conj
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sides	amod
7	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	They	it					tree rules
2	use	present	They not said here	different sides					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient

Option 4

They share it if it looks clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 share	nsubj
2	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 share	obj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 looks	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looks	nsubj
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 share	advcl
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	They	it					tree rules
2	look a condition, not said to happen	present	it					clean property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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/t7/