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Test 6 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

A boy pushes a cotton bud deep into his ear every day. What is the danger?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, danger · What happens: push, be · To what, where: cotton bud, ear

This is test 6 · ★ 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 pushes a cotton bud deep into his ear every day.

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	3 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bud	det
5	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bud	compound
6	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obj
7	deep	deep	ADV	_	3 pushes	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 ear	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ear	nmod:poss
10	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obl:unmarked
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pushes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	a boy	a cotton bud		boy's ear	day	deep property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bud=Theme into ear=Destination

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 the danger?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 danger	det
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the danger						tree rules

The options

Option 1

His ears would become too clean

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 ears	nmod:poss
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 clean	advmod
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	His ears					clean property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing, cotton is soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cotton	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soft	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 soft	cop
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing cotton					soft property	tree rules

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

He could push wax deeper and hurt his eardrum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 push	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 push	aux
3	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 push	obj
5	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 push	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hurt	cc
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 push	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eardrum	nmod:poss
9	eardrum	eardrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	could	He	wax				deep property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Theme
2	hurt	past	He not said here	his eardrum					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eardrum=Patient

Option 4

His ears would slowly stop hearing music

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 ears	nmod:poss
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 music	compound
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	His ears	hearing music				slowly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality music=Eventuality

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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