Test 9 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair
A family wants to use less water. What helps in the bathroom?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: family · What happens: want, use, help · To what, where: less water, bathroom
This is test 9 · ★ 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 family wants to use less water.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | 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 use | mark |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | a family | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | use not said to happen | to-infinitive | a family not said here | less water | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
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 helps in the bathroom?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bathroom | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bathroom | det |
| 5 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 helps | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | the bathroom | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Shorter showers of about five minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 showers | amod |
| 2 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 minutes | case |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 five | advmod |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 minutes | nummod |
| 6 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 showers | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Showering three times a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Showering | shower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Showering | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shower | gerund | time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Leaving the tap running while brushing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tap | det |
| 3 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaving | obj |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Leaving | conj |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 brushing | mark |
| 6 | brushing | brush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 running | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | the tap | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tap=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | brush | gerund | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Longer baths with more bubbles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 baths | amod |
| 2 | baths | bath | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 bubbles | case |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 bubbles | amod |
| 5 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 baths | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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