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Test 8 · Sore throats, ears and eyes

In a cartoon a kid pulls a huge lump of wax from his ear and uses it as a candle. What's true about wax?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: pull, use, be · To what, where: huge lump, cartoon, lump

This is test 8 of lesson 9 «Sore throats, ears and eyes» of the medicine 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: In a cartoon a kid pulls a huge lump of wax from his ear and uses it as a candle.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	nsubj
6	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lump	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lump	amod
9	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 wax	case
11	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lump	nmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 ear	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ear	nmod:poss
14	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 uses	cc
16	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pulls	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 uses	obj
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 candle	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 candle	det
20	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 uses	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pulls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	a kid	a huge lump of wax		a cartoon		from kid's ear	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent lump=Theme from ear=Initial_Location
2	use	present	a kid not said here	lump				as a candle	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Duration as candle=Attribute

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's true about wax?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 wax	case
5	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about wax; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Wax is just old dirt that gets stuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dirt	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dirt	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 dirt	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dirt	amod
5	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dirt	acl:relcl
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wax	old dirt					tree rules
2	get	present	old dirt					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Wax should be dug out every single day with a pin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dug	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dug	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 dug	aux:pass
4	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 dug	compound:prt
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dug	obl:unmarked
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 pin	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pin	det
11	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dug	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig out	should · passive		Wax			day	with a pin	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: subject=Theme with pin=Instrument

Option 3

Wax means you never wash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wash	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 wash	advmod
5	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Wax						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not wash	present	you						vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The ear makes it to clean and protect itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ear	det
2	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 clean	mark
6	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 protect	cc
8	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 clean	conj
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the ear	it					tree rules
2	clean	to-infinitive							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	protect	infinitive		ear					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary

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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