Test 3 · ★ · Eyes, nose and using the toilet
A girl flushes a wet wipe because it says «moist». What could happen?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, wipe · What happens: flush, say, happen · To what, where: wet wipe, moist · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 78 «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» 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 girl flushes a wet wipe because it says «moist».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flushes | nsubj |
| 3 | flushes | flush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wipe | det |
| 5 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wipe | amod |
| 6 | wipe | wipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flushes | obj |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 says | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flushes | advcl |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 moist | punct |
| 11 | moist | moist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | obj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 moist | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flushes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flush | present | a girl | a wet wipe | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wipe=Source | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | wipe | moist | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent moist=Topic |
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
It would scrub the pipes clean on the way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scrub | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 scrub | aux |
| 3 | scrub | scrub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pipes | det |
| 5 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clean | nsubj |
| 6 | clean | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scrub | ccomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clean | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scrub | would | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | clean | present | the pipes | the way | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It could block the pipes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 block | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 block | aux |
| 3 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pipes | det |
| 5 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 block | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | block | could | It | the pipes | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer pipe=Theme |
Option 3
Nothing, wipes are made to flush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 wipes | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | wipes | wipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 flush | mark |
| 7 | flush | flush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Nothing wipes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | flush | to-infinitive | Nothing wipes not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
It would dissolve like toilet paper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dissolve | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 dissolve | aux |
| 3 | dissolve | dissolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 paper | case |
| 5 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paper | compound |
| 6 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dissolve | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve | would | It | like toilet paper | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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