--- title: A toddler pushes a pea into his ear. What should his big brother do? — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics description: A toddler pushes a pea into his ear. What should his big brother do? Test 9 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Hair, nails and ears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Hair, nails and ears A toddler pushes a pea into his ear. What should his big brother do? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** toddler, big brother · **What happens:** push, do · **To what, where:** pea, ear This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A toddler pushes a pea into his ear. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t9:1 # text = A toddler pushes a pea into his ear. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toddler toddler NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | present | a toddler | a pea | | toddler's ear | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pea=Theme into ear=Destination | 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 should his big brother do? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t9:2 # text = What should his big brother do? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | should | toddler's big brother | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Pour water in to float it out ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t9:o1:1 # text = Pour water in to float it out 1 Pour pour VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 float float VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pour in** | imperative | you *not said here* | water | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 2 | **float out** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | water | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Tell an adult straight away ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t9:o2:1 # text = Tell an adult straight away 1 Tell tell 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 _ _ 4 straight straight ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Laugh and wait for it to fall out ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t9:o3:1 # text = Laugh and wait for it to fall out 1 Laugh laugh VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | for it | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fall out** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Try to dig it out with tweezers ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:77-hair-nails-and-ears:t9:o4:1 # text = Try to dig it out with tweezers 1 Try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 tweezers tweezer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **dig out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | it | | | | with tweezers | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with tweezer=Instrument | **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. 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