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title: chewed my nail and now my finger is all red n puffy — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: chewed my nail and now my finger is all red n puffy Test 15 · ★ 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 15 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears

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chewed my nail and now my finger is all red n puffy

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** finger · **What happens:** chew, be · **To what, where:** nail

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This is test 15 · ★ 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/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t15:1
# text = chewed my nail and now my finger is all red n puffy
1	chewed	chew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
11	n	n	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	puffy	puffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chew** | past |  | my nail |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | my finger |  |  |  | now | n puffy; all, red *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Show an adult, it may be infected

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t15:o1:1
# text = Show an adult, it may be infected
1	Show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	infected	infect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | imperative | you *not said here* | a adult |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **infect** | may · passive |  | adult |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hide it in a glove till it goes away on its own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t15:o2:1
# text = Hide it in a glove till it goes away on its own
1	Hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	glove	glove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | a glove |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in glove=Location |
| 2 | **go away** | present | glove |  |  | glove's own |  | away *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on own=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chew it more so it heals faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t15:o3:1
# text = Chew it more so it heals faster
1	Chew	chew	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heals	heal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chew** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **heal** | present | it |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Squeeze it hard to empty it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t15:o4:1
# text = Squeeze it hard to empty it
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	empty	empty	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **empty** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=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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