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Test 10 · ★ · Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist

Both a hot drink and an icy drink make the same tooth zing. What is the most likely reason?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hot drink, likely reason · What happens: make, be · To what, where: same tooth zing

This is test 10 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Both a hot drink and an icy drink make the same tooth zing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	CCONJ	_	4 drink	cc:preconj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drink	det
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drink	amod
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drink	cc
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drink	det
7	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drink	amod
8	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	conj
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 zing	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 zing	amod
12	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 zing	compound
13	zing	zing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a hot drink and a icy drink	the same tooth zing					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material zing=Product

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.

Sentence 2: What is the most likely reason?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reason	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reason	amod
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the likely reason						tree rules

The options

Option 1

The tooth only feels hot things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tooth	det
2	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feels	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 feels	advmod
4	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feels	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	the tooth	hot things					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The drinks contain acid that burns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drinks	det
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 contain	nsubj
3	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contain	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 burns	nsubj
6	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 acid	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	present	the drinks	acid					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot acid=Theme
2	burn	present	acid						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The tongue is sore, not the tooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tongue	det
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sore	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sore	cop
4	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tooth	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tooth	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tooth	det
8	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tongue					the tooth obl; sore property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Worn enamel or gum lets heat and cold reach the nerve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 enamel	amod
2	enamel	enamel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lets	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 gum	cc
4	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 enamel	conj
5	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lets	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 reach	cc
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reach	nsubj
9	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lets	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nerve	det
11	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	Worn enamel or gum	heat					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	reach	present	cold	the nerve					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nerve=Theme

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