Test 10 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

ear's itchy, gonna dig in with a cotton bud

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ear · What happens: dig in

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 77 «Hair, nails and ears» 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	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dig	nsubj
2	's	's	PART	_	1 ear	case
3	itchy	itchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ear	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dig	punct
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 dig	dep
6	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 dig	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 bud	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bud	det
10	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bud	compound
11	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig in	infinitive	ear					with a cotton bud	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bud=Instrument

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

Yes, ears need cleaning deep inside every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cleaning	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 need	xcomp
6	deep	deep	ADV	_	7 inside	advmod
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 cleaning	advmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleaning	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	ears						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	clean not said to happen	gerund	ears not said here				day	inside property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yes, but use a hair clip instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 use	cc
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 clip	det
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clip	compound
7	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a hair clip				instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it pushes wax deeper and can hurt the eardrum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 pushes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pushes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pushes	nsubj
4	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushes	obj
6	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 pushes	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hurt	cc
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pushes	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eardrum	det
11	eardrum	eardrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	it	wax				deep property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Theme
2	hurt	can		the eardrum					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eardrum=Patient

Option 4

Yes, push it right in to clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 push	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 push	obj
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 in	advmod
6	in	in	ADV	_	3 push	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 clean	mark
8	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 push	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here	it					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	clean	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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.

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