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Test 9 · ★ · Growing, skin, hair and food

"Shaved my leg hair last week and it's all stubbly and thick now, told ya!" What's really happening?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hair · What happens: shave, be, tell, happen · To what, where: leg hair, ya · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: "Shaved my leg hair last week and it's all stubbly and thick now, told ya!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Shaved	punct
2	Shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hair	nmod:poss
4	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hair	compound
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Shaved	obj
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 week	amod
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Shaved	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stubbly	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stubbly	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stubbly	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 stubbly	advmod
12	stubbly	stubbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Shaved	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thick	cc
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stubbly	conj
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Shaved	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Shaved	conj
18	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Shaved	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Shaved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave in a quote	participle		my leg hair			now; week		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	hair					all, stubbly property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		hair not said here						tree rules
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	participle		ya					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ya=Recipient

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 happening?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happening	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happening	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 happening	advmod
4	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present · progressive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Shaving doubled the number of hairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaving	Shaving	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 doubled	nsubj
2	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doubled	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 hairs	case
6	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double	past	Shaving	the number of hairs					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent number=Patient

Option 2

The leg grew new roots after shaving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leg	det
2	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 roots	amod
5	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	obj
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 shaving	mark
7	shaving	shave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 grew	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the leg	new roots					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location root=Theme
2	shave	gerund	the leg not said here						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The hairs have blunt cut ends that feel rough, not thicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hairs	det
2	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ends	amod
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ends	amod
6	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 feel	nsubj
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ends	acl:relcl
9	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feel	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thicker	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 thicker	advmod
12	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 have	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the hairs	blunt cut ends					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient
2	cut	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	feel	present	blunt cut ends					rough property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

The hairs got darker and twice as thick because of the sharp razor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hairs	det
2	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 got	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thick	cc
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 thick	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 thick	advmod
8	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj
9	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	13 razor	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 because	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 razor	det
12	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 razor	amod
13	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the hairs					dark property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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