Exam question 3 · Growing, skin, hair and food

Identify the principal reason for which a shaved hair is perceived to be coarser upon regrowth.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, shave, perceive, be · To what, where: principal reason, shaved hair

This is exam question 3 of lesson 6 «Growing, skin, hair and food» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 perceived	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hair	det
8	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hair	amod
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 perceived	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 perceived	aux:pass
11	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 coarser	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 coarser	cop
14	coarser	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 perceived	xcomp
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 regrowth	case
16	regrowth	regrowth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coarser	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	shave	participle				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	perceive	present · passive		a shaved hair	for the principal reason	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	is	to-infinitive			upon regrowth; coarse property	tree rules

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

Shaving increases the thickness of each hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaving	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 increases	nsubj
2	increases	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thickness	det
4	thickness	thickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 increases	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hair	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hair	det
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thickness	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	gerund							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	increase	present		the thickness of each hair					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer thickness=Patient

Option 2

Shaving accelerates the rate of hair growth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaving	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 accelerates	nsubj
2	accelerates	accelerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rate	det
4	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accelerates	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 growth	case
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growth	compound
7	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rate	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	gerund							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	accelerate	present		the rate of hair growth					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rate=Patient

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

The severed hair possesses a blunt tip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hair	det
2	severed	sever	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hair	amod
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possesses	nsubj
4	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tip	det
6	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tip	amod
7	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possesses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sever	participle							vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	possess	present	the severed hair	a blunt tip					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tip=Theme

Option 4

Shaving doubles the number of follicles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaving	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 doubles	nsubj
2	doubles	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doubles	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 follicles	case
6	follicles	follicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	gerund							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	double	present		the number of follicles					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent number=Patient

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