Test 11 · ★★ · Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and s…

«sugar's bad for teeth cos it's sharp» What is the real reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sugar · What happens: be · To what, where: real reason

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 288 «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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	_	4 bad	punct
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bad	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sugar	case
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bad	obl
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 sharp	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sharp	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sharp	cop
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reason	advcl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 sharp	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 reason	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 reason	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reason	det
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reason	amod
16	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bad	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	sugar					sharp property	tree rules
2	is a	present		the real reason					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 · ✓ the right answer

Mouth bacteria eat sugar and make acid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bacteria	compound
2	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 make	cc
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
7	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Mouth bacteria	sugar					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient
2	make	present	Mouth bacteria not said here	acid					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acid=Product

Option 2

Sugar turns into stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 stones	case
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Sugar			stones			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into stone=Trajectory

Option 3

Sugar crystals cut the teeth like tiny knives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crystals	compound
2	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teeth	det
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 knives	case
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knives	amod
8	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	Sugar crystals	the teeth				like tiny knives	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tooth=Product

Option 4

Sugar is too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sugar					cold property	tree rules

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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