Exam question 3 · Hair, nails and ears
Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a hangnail.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, hangnail
This is exam question 3 of lesson 77 «Hair, nails and ears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Select | select | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 response | det |
| 3 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 4 | consistent | consistent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Select | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 facts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 facts | det |
| 7 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 facts | amod |
| 8 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consistent | obl |
| 9 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 facts | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hangnail | det |
| 11 | hangnail | hangnail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concerning | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the response | consistent property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme | |||
| 2 | establish | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | the established facts not said here | a hangnail | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hangnail=Experiencer |
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is clipped with clean clippers, since pulling tears the skin
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 | 3 clipped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 clipped | aux:pass |
| 3 | clipped | clip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 clippers | case |
| 5 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clippers | amod |
| 6 | clippers | clipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clipped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tears | punct |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 tears | mark |
| 9 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 tears | nsubj |
| 10 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 clipped | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 skin | det |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tears | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clip | present · passive | It | with clean clippers | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient with clipper=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | tear | present | the skin | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location skin=Theme |
Option 2
It is bitten off, since saliva heals the skin
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 | 3 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bitten | aux:pass |
| 3 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 bitten | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heals | punct |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 8 heals | mark |
| 7 | saliva | saliva | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heals | nsubj |
| 8 | heals | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bitten | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 skin | det |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heals | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite off | present · passive | It | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | heal | present | saliva | the skin | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
Option 3
It is left to grow until it falls off unaided
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 | 3 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 grow | mark |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | xcomp |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 falls | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 falls | nsubj |
| 8 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | advcl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 falls | compound:prt |
| 10 | unaided | unaided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 falls | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | to-infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fall off | present | it | unaided property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 4
It is pulled off quickly, since this causes less pain and heals sooner
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 | 3 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | aux:pass |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 pulled | compound:prt |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 causes | punct |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 9 causes | mark |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 causes | nsubj |
| 9 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | parataxis |
| 10 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 pain | amod |
| 11 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 causes | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 heals | cc |
| 13 | heals | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 causes | conj |
| 14 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 heals | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull off | present · passive | It | quickly property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cause | present | this | less pain | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pain=Patient | ||||
| 3 | heal | present | this not said here | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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