Test 9 · Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth

«my tooth's wobbly and I'm scared, it'll hurt loads when it comes out yeah» What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, tooth · What happens: be, hurt, come out · To what, where: loads, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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	_	5 wobbly	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tooth	nmod:poss
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wobbly	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 tooth	case
5	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 scared	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 scared	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 scared	cop
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wobbly	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hurt	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hurt	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hurt	aux
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wobbly	parataxis
14	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hurt	obj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 comes	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 comes	nsubj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hurt	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 comes	compound:prt
19	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	24 truth	discourse
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 yeah	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 truth	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 truth	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 truth	det
24	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	parataxis
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wobbly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I		scared property	tree rules
2	hurt in a quote	future	tooth	loads		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Patient
3	come out in a quote	present	tooth			tree rules
4	is a	present		the truth		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 · ✓ the right answer

It barely hurts, because its root has already dissolved away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hurts	nsubj
2	barely	barely	ADV	_	3 hurts	advmod
3	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dissolved	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 dissolved	mark
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 root	nmod:poss
7	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dissolved	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dissolved	aux
9	already	already	ADV	_	10 dissolved	advmod
10	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 hurts	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 dissolved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	It					barely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	dissolve away	present · perfect	its root					away property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It hurts badly, because the whole nerve gets pulled out along with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 hurts	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pulled	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 pulled	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nerve	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nerve	amod
8	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	nsubj:pass
9	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pulled	aux:pass
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hurts	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 pulled	compound:prt
12	along	along	ADP	_	14 it	case
13	with	with	ADP	_	12 along	fixed
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	It					badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	pull out	present · passive		the whole nerve				along it	tree rules

Option 3

It hurts unless you leave it in for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	5 leave	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 leave	nsubj
5	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hurts	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	5 leave	compound:prt
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	It						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	leave in a condition, not said to happen	present	you	it			year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

It hurts as much as a broken arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hurts	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 arm	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 arm	det
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 arm	amod
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 much	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	It	much				as a broken arm	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Patient
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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