Test 6 · ★ · The vet

«old dog's breath stinks and his teeth are all brown» What is most likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: breath, teeth · What happens: stink, be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 227 «The vet» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 stinks	punct
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breath	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 dog	case
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stinks	nsubj
6	stinks	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brown	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teeth	nmod:poss
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 brown	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 brown	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 brown	advmod
12	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stinks	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 stinks	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 likely	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 likely	cop
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 likely	advmod
17	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 stinks	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stink in a quote	present	old dog's breath		vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	breath's teeth	all, brown property	tree rules
3	is	present		likely property	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Brown teeth mean healthy teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 teeth	amod
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teeth	amod
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Brown teeth	healthy teeth					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Topic

Option 2

He has been eating chocolate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect · progressive	He	chocolate					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tartar is building up and his gums may be sore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tartar	tartar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 building	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 building	aux
3	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 building	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sore	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gums	nmod:poss
7	gums	gum	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sore	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sore	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 sore	cop
10	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 building	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build up	present · progressive	Tartar						vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is	may	Tartar's gums					sore property	tree rules

Option 4

His teeth are changing colour with the seasons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 changing	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 changing	aux
4	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changing	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 seasons	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seasons	det
8	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 changing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present · progressive	His teeth	colour			season		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

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