Test 5 · ★ · Growing, skin, hair and food
In a horror film, a body in a coffin has long new fingernails after a year. What's really going on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: body · What happens: have, go on · To what, where: long new fingernails, horror film
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 6 «Growing, skin, hair and food» of the myths 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 horror film, a body in a coffin has long new fingernails after a year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 film | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 film | det |
| 3 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 film | compound |
| 4 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 film | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 body | det |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 coffin | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coffin | det |
| 10 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 body | nmod |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fingernails | amod |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fingernails | amod |
| 14 | fingernails | fingernail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 has | obj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 year | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fingernails | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a body in a coffin | long new fingernails | a horror film | after a year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fingernail=Patient |
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 really going on?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 going | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 going | advmod |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 going | compound:prt |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | present · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nails really do grow faster after death, for weeks and weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 grow | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grow | aux |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 grow | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grow | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 weeks | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 weeks | case |
| 10 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grow | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 weeks | cc |
| 12 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 weeks | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present · do-support | Nails | after death; week | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The coffin air made them grow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 air | det |
| 2 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 air | compound |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the coffin air | them = they | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | infinitive | them = they not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The skin shrank back, so the nails only look longer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 skin | det |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shrank | nsubj |
| 3 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 shrank | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 look | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 look | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nails | det |
| 8 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 look | nsubj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 look | advmod |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shrank | conj |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 look | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink back | past | the skin | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | look | present | the nails | long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
The film is right, nails grow for years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 film | det |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grow | punct |
| 6 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grow | nsubj |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | parataxis |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the film | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | nails | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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