Test 7 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

Which habit puts germs into the mouth?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: habit · What happens: put · To what, where: germs, mouth

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 habit	det
2	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	nsubj
3	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 puts	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouth	det
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puts	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 puts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	which habit	germs		the mouth			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent germ=Goal

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

Using nail clippers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clippers	compound
3	clippers	clipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		nail clippers					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clipper=Patient

Option 2

Keeping your nails short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nails	nmod:poss
3	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keeping	obj
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keeping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		your nails				short property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Theme

Option 3

Scrubbing under your nails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scrubbing	scrub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 nails	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nails	nmod:poss
4	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Scrubbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrub	gerund				your nails			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Biting your nails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nails	nmod:poss
3	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Biting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	gerund		your nails					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient

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