Test 4 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

Why do ears not need cleaning inside?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ears · What happens: not need · To what, where: cleaning

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 need	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
3	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 need	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	ears	cleaning				inside property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cleaning=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

Ears are cleaned when you sneeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cleaned	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cleaned	aux:pass
3	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sneeze	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sneeze	nsubj
6	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cleaned	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present · passive		Ears					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	sneeze	present	you						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Wax moves out of the ear by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wax	Wax	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moves	nsubj
2	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 ear	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 ear	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ear	det
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moves	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move out	present	Wax	the ear				by ear	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme

Option 3

Ears never make any wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 make	advmod
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 wax	det
5	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present	Ears	any wax					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wax=Product

Option 4

Wax is cleaned away from inside by the brain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleaned	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cleaned	aux:pass
3	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 cleaned	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 inside	case
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 cleaned	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 brain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brain	det
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleaned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean away	present · passive	the brain	Wax				away property	vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from inside=Source

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