Test 18 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

my cousin says if u shave ur arm the hair grows back thick and black like a gorilla, true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, u, hair · What happens: say, shave, grow back · To what, where: arm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 shave	mark
5	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 shave	nsubj
6	shave	shave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 grows	advcl
7	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arm	nmod:poss
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shave	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hair	det
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grows	nsubj
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 grows	advmod
13	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grows	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 black	cc
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thick	conj
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 gorilla	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 gorilla	det
18	gorilla	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 black	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 true	punct
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thick	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shave a condition, not said to happen	present	u	ur's arm		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
3	grow back	present	the hair		thick property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, a myth; cutting hair does not change how it grows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 myth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 myth	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 change	punct
6	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 change	csubj
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cutting	obj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 change	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 change	advmod
10	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 myth	parataxis
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 grows	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grows	nsubj
13	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 change	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cut	gerund		hair	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product
2	not change	present · do-support	cutting		tree rules
3	grow	present	hair		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

True, every cut hair grows back twice as thick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grows	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grows	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hair	det
4	cut	cut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hair	amod
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grows	nsubj
6	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 grows	advmod
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 thick	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 thick	advmod
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grows	xcomp

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

Option 3

True, and it grows back in a new colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grows	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grows	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grows	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grows	nsubj
5	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 grows	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 colour	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 colour	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 colour	amod
10	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	it			a new colour			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in colour=Location

Option 4

True, but only on the arms and legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 arms	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 arms	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 arms	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 arms	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 arms	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 arms	det
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 legs	cc
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 arms	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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