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Test 2 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

A boy in Brisbane cuts his toenails into deep curves at the corners. What could happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: cut, happen · To what, where: toenails, deep curves

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Brisbane cuts his toenails into deep curves at the corners.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cuts	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Brisbane	case
4	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 toenails	nmod:poss
7	toenails	toenail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cuts	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 curves	case
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 curves	amod
10	curves	curve	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cuts	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 corners	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 corners	det
13	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cuts	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cuts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	a boy in Brisbane	boy's toenails		deep curves		at the corners	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent toenail=Material into curve=Product

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.

Sentence 2: What could happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

His nails would grow back thicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 nails	nmod:poss
2	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
6	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp

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

Option 2

His toes would get longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 toes	nmod:poss
2	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	His toes					long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

A toenail could grow into the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 toenail	det
2	toenail	toenail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 skin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skin	det
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	could	a toenail					into the skin result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into skin=Result

Option 4

His toenails would stop growing for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 toenails	nmod:poss
2	toenails	toenail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 good	case
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	His toenails						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	His toenails not said here					for good	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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