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title: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning… — Hair: growing, curly and straight, eye… · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the effect of shaving upon the subsequent growth of hair. Exam question 3 of lesson 355 «Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Exam question 3 · Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and…

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the effect of shaving upon the subsequent growth of hair.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, established facts, effect, hair · **What happens:** select, establish, concern, shave, grow · **To what, where:** response, effect

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 355 «Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey:e3:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the effect of shaving upon the subsequent growth of hair.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	shaving	shave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the established facts *not said here* | the effect |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus effect=Experiencer |
| 4 | **shave** | gerund | the effect *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the subsequent growth of hair | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow** |  | hair |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Shaving terminates the growth of hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey:e3:o1:1
# text = Shaving terminates the growth of hair
1	Shaving	shave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	terminates	terminate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **terminate** | present |  | the growth of hair |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent growth=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** |  | hair |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shaving darkens the hair permanently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey:e3:o2:1
# text = Shaving darkens the hair permanently
1	Shaving	shave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	darkens	darken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	permanently	permanently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **darken** | present |  | the hair |  |  |  | permanently *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Shaving doubles the thickness of the hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey:e3:o3:1
# text = Shaving doubles the thickness of the hair
1	Shaving	shave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	doubles	double	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thickness	thickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 thickness of the hair |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thickness=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Shaving does not render the hair thicker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey:e3:o4:1
# text = Shaving does not render the hair thicker
1	Shaving	shave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **not** **render** | present · do-support | Shaving | the hair |  |  |  | thick *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |

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**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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