Test 11 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

my sis says cutting hair makes it grow back thicker

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sis, cutting, hair · What happens: say, cut, make, grow back · To what, where: hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sis	nmod:poss
2	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 makes	csubj
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cutting	obj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 makes	obj
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 makes	xcomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 grow	advmod
10	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my sis			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cut	gerund		hair		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product
3	make	present	cutting	hair	thick property	tree rules
4	grow back	infinitive	hair not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, but only if it's cut very short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 cut	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 cut	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 cut	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cut	nsubj:pass
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	aux
8	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 short	advmod
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cut	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present · passive		it				short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

Yes, it also makes hair grow loads faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 makes	advmod
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	xcomp
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grow	obj
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	hair					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	hair not said here	loads				fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location load=Theme

Option 3

Yes, it grows back thicker each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 grows	advmod
6	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grows	xcomp
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	it				time	thick property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, cutting does not change how hair grows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 change	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 change	csubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 change	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 change	advmod
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 grows	advmod
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grows	nsubj
9	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 change	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	cut	gerund		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	not change	present · do-support	cutting	tree rules
3	grow	present	hair	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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