Test 15 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears
chewed my nail and now my finger is all red n puffy
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: finger · What happens: chew, be · To what, where: nail
This is test 15 · ★ 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 | chewed | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 nail | nmod:poss |
| 3 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 chewed | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 red | cc |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 red | advmod |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 finger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 red | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 red | cop |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 red | advmod |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 chewed | conj |
| 11 | n | n | ADP | _ | 12 puffy | case |
| 12 | puffy | puffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 red | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | past | my nail | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | my finger | now | n puffy; all, red property | tree rules |
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
Show an adult, it may be infected
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 adult | det |
| 3 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Show | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Show | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 infected | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 infected | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 infected | aux:pass |
| 8 | infected | infect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Show | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | imperative | you not said here | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | infect | may · passive | adult | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
Option 2
Hide it in a glove till it goes away on its own
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hide | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 glove | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 glove | det |
| 5 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hide | obl |
| 6 | till | till | 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 | 1 Hide | advcl |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 goes | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 own | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 own | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 goes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | imperative | you not said here | it | a glove | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in glove=Location | |||
| 2 | go away | present | glove | glove's own | away property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on own=Location |
Option 3
Chew it more so it heals faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chew | chew | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Chew | obj |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Chew | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 heals | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heals | nsubj |
| 6 | heals | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Chew | parataxis |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 heals | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | imperative | you not said here | it | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | heal | present | it | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Squeeze it hard to empty it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Squeeze | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Squeeze | obj |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Squeeze | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 empty | mark |
| 5 | empty | empty | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hard | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 empty | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | imperative | you not said here | it | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | empty | to-infinitive | you not said here | it | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source |
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