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title: ear's itchy, gonna dig in with a cotton bud — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: ear's itchy, gonna dig in with a cotton bud Test 10 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

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ear's itchy, gonna dig in with a cotton bud

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ear · **What happens:** dig in

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This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t10:1
# text = ear's itchy, gonna dig in with a cotton bud
1	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	itchy	itchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
6	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig in** | infinitive | ear |  |  |  |  | with a cotton bud | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bud=Instrument |

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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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Yes, ears need cleaning deep inside every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t10:o1:1
# text = Yes, ears need cleaning deep inside every day
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | ears |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **clean** *not said to happen* | gerund | ears *not said here* |  |  |  | day | inside *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, but use a hair clip instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t10:o2:1
# text = Yes, but use a hair clip instead
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | a hair clip |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, it pushes wax deeper and can hurt the eardrum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t10:o3:1
# text = No, it pushes wax deeper and can hurt the eardrum
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eardrum	eardrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present | it | wax |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Theme |
| 2 | **hurt** | can |  | the eardrum |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eardrum=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, push it right in to clean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t10:o4:1
# text = Yes, push it right in to clean
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **clean** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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