Test 1 · ★ · Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist

«had sweets all arvo but only little ones, that's fine for me teeth innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that · What happens: have, be · To what, where: sweets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 352 «Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist» 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	_	2 had	punct
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 right	csubj
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 arvo	det
5	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 ones	cc
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 ones	advmod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arvo	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fine	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 fine	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fine	cop
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 fine	obl
16	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 innit	compound
17	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fine	parataxis
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past		sweets		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	that		for me; fine property	tree rules
3	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

Yes, as long as they are not chocolate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 long	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 chocolate	case
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chocolate	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 chocolate	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 chocolate	advmod
9	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	they					as chocolate	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, each nibble starts a new acid attack, so all day is the worst way

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 starts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 starts	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 nibble	det
4	nibble	nibble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	nsubj
5	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 attack	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 attack	amod
8	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attack	compound
9	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	17 way	advmod
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 way	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 way	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	each nibble	a new acid attack					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Eventuality
2	is a	present	all day	the worst way					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, small sweets are too little to harm teeth, however many you have

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 little	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sweets	amod
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 little	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 little	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 little	advmod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 harm	mark
9	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 little	xcomp
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 harm	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	however	however	ADV	_	13 many	advmod
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 have	nsubj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 little	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	small sweets		little property	tree rules
2	harm	to-infinitive	small sweets not said here	teeth		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tooth=Experiencer
3	have	present	many			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

No, but only because sweets are hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 hard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hard	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 hard	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 sweets	advmod
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 sweets	case
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hard	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hard	cop
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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