Test 4 · Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth

«mate says when a baby tooth falls out there's nothing under it, you just get a hole forever» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, baby tooth, nothing, you · What happens: say, fall out, be, get · To what, where: hole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 351 «Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth» 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	_	3 says	punct
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 falls	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tooth	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tooth	compound
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 falls	nsubj
8	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 falls	advmod
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 's	expl
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 falls	advcl
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 's	nsubj
13	under	under	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 nothing	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 get	nsubj
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 get	advmod
18	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hole	det
20	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obj
21	forever	forever	ADV	_	18 get	advmod
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 right	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 right	cop
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 get	parataxis
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall out in a quote	present	a baby tooth			out property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be in a quote	present	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get in a quote	present	you	a hole		forever property	tree rules
5	is	present				right 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 · ✓ the right answer

No, a grown-up tooth is already waiting underneath and comes through in a few months

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 waiting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tooth	det
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tooth	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 grown	compound:prt
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waiting	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 waiting	aux
9	already	already	ADV	_	10 waiting	advmod
10	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	10 waiting	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 comes	cc
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 waiting	conj
14	through	through	ADV	_	13 comes	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 months	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 months	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 months	amod
18	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	present · progressive	a grown tooth		underneath property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come through	present	a grown tooth not said here	month	through property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, the gap stays empty for life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 stays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gap	det
4	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	nsubj
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stays	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 life	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the gap					for life; empty property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, unless you put the tooth back in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	5 put	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tooth	det
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	5 put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put back	present	you	the tooth					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tooth=Goal

Option 4

No, the same baby tooth grows back bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tooth	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tooth	amod
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tooth	compound
6	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	nsubj
7	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 grows	advmod
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 grows	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	the same baby tooth					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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