Test 8 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair

Why do people brush long tangled hair from the ends first?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: brush, tangle · To what, where: tangled hair, ends

This is test 8 · ★ 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	4 brush	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brush	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brush	nsubj
4	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 tangled	advmod
6	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hair	amod
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brush	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 ends	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ends	det
10	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brush	obl
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 brush	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 brush	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	present · do-support	people	tangled hair			from the ends	first property	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hair=Theme from end=Initial_Location
2	tangle	participle						long property	tree rules

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

It is the only way to see the knots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 knots	det
9	knots	knot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the only way					tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		the knots					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knot=Stimulus

Option 2

The ends are the dirtiest part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ends	det
2	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 part	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 part	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 part	det
5	dirtiest	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 part	amod
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

Pulling from the top hurts and breaks the hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 hurts	csubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 top	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 top	det
4	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pulling	obl
5	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 breaks	cc
7	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hurts	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hair	det
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 breaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull	gerund			from the top	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from top=Co-Patient
2	hurt	present	Pulling			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	break	present	Pulling not said here	the hair		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Patient

Option 4

It makes the hair grow longer and thicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hair	det
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 grow	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thicker	cc
8	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the hair					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	the hair not said here					long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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