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title: A girl with long hair is helping her dad with an electric drill. Wha… — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl with long hair is helping her dad with an electric drill. What should she do first? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 77 «Hair, nails and ears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

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A girl with long hair is helping her dad with an electric drill. What should she do first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** help, do · **To what, where:** dad

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 77 «Hair, nails and ears» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl with long hair is helping her dad with an electric drill.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t1:1
# text = A girl with long hair is helping her dad with an electric drill.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	drill	drill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present · progressive | a girl with long hair |  | girl's dad |  |  | with a electric drill | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dad=Beneficiary with drill=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should she do first?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t1:2
# text = What should she do first?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | girl |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Tie her hair back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t1:o1:1
# text = Tie her hair back
1	Tie	tie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie back** | imperative | you *not said here* | her hair |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Let her hair hang over her face

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t1:o2:1
# text = Let her hair hang over her face
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hang	hang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | hair hang | her *= she* | her face |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient hang=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Brush her hair smooth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t1:o3:1
# text = Brush her hair smooth
1	Brush	brush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | imperative | you *not said here* | her hair |  |  |  | smooth *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wear her hair in a loose ribbon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t1:o4:1
# text = Wear her hair in a loose ribbon
1	Wear	wear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | imperative | you *not said here* | her hair |  | a loose ribbon |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Source |

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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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