Test 14 · Eyes, ears and moving your body

helmet makes my hair weird, skating without

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: helmet · What happens: make, skate · To what, where: hair

This is test 14 of lesson 87 «Eyes, ears and moving your body» 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	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 skating	punct
7	skating	skate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 makes	advcl
8	without	without	ADP	_	7 skating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	helmet	my hair				weird property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material hair=Product
2	skate	gerund	helmet not said here						vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme 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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Wear it, falls on hard ground can badly hurt your head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wear	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 falls	punct
4	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hurt	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ground	amod
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falls	obl
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hurt	aux
9	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 hurt	advmod
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wear	advcl
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	imperative	you not said here	it			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fall	present			hard ground		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
3	hurt	can	you not said here	your head		badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Patient

Option 2

Only wear it on hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 wear	advmod
2	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wear	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 hills	case
5	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	imperative	you not said here	it		hills			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Helmets are only for races

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 races	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 races	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 races	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 races	case
5	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Helmets					for races	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Skip it if you're already really good at skating n never fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Skip	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 good	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 good	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 good	cop
6	already	already	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Skip	advcl
9	at	at	SCONJ	_	10 skating	mark
10	skating	skate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 good	advcl
11	n	n	X	_	10 skating	obj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 fall	advmod
13	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 skating	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	skip	imperative	you not said here	it		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you		good property	tree rules
3	skate	gerund	you not said here	n		tree rules
4	not fall	infinitive	you not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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