Test 14 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

ear feels blocked, gonna dig with a cotton bud

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ear · What happens: feel, block, dig

This is test 14 · ★ 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	2 feels	nsubj
2	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 feels	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dig	punct
5	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 dig	dep
6	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feels	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 bud	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bud	det
9	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bud	compound
10	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	present	ear		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	block	participle	ear not said here		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
3	dig	infinitive	ear not said here	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

Push it in as far as it goes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Push	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	1 Push	compound:prt
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Push	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 goes	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 goes	nsubj
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 far	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push in	imperative	you not said here	it				far property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	go	present	it						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Pour cold juice in to loosen it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 juice	amod
3	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pour	obj
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 loosen	mark
5	to	to	PART	_	6 loosen	mark
6	loosen	loosen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pour	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loosen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	imperative	you not said here	cold juice					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Patient
2	loosen	to-infinitive	you not said here	juice					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

Don't, it can hurt your eardrum, tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	advcl
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Do	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hurt	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hurt	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Do	parataxis
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eardrum	nmod:poss
8	eardrum	eardrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurt	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 adult	det
12	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not do	infinitive	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	can	it	your eardrum		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eardrum=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 4

Use a pencil instead, it's thinner and gets right in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pencil	det
3	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Use	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thinner	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thinner	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thinner	cop
8	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Use	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gets	cc
10	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Use	conj
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gets	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	11 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a pencil	instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Patient
2	is	present	pencil		thin property	tree rules
3	get	present	you not said here		right property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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