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Test 3 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

A friend says you should shave your arms so the hair grows back thick and strong. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, you, hair · What happens: say, shave, grow, be · To what, where: arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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 friend says you should shave your arms so the hair grows back thick and strong.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 shave	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 shave	aux
6	shave	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arms	nmod:poss
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shave	obj
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 grows	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hair	det
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grows	nsubj
12	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shave	advcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	14 thick	advmod
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grows	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 strong	cc
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thick	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shave	should	you	your arms					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
3	grow	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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Only arm hair grows back thicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 hair	advmod
2	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hair	compound
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cutting hair does not change how it grows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 change	csubj
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cutting	obj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 change	advmod
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 grows	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grows	nsubj
8	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 change	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	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 3

Shaving stops hair growing for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaving	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obj
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hair	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	gerund							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present		hair					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality hair=Eventuality
3	grow	gerund	hair not said here					for good	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Shaving always doubles the hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaving	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 doubles	csubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 Shaving	advmod
3	doubles	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hair	det
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doubles	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	gerund						always property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	double	present	Shaving	the hair					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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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