Test 11 · ★ · Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist

On a desert island with no toothbrush, what would help clean your teeth best?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: help, clean · To what, where: desert island, teeth

This is test 11 · ★ 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 island	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 island	det
3	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 island	compound
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 toothbrush	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 toothbrush	det
7	toothbrush	toothbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 island	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 help	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 help	aux
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 help	xcomp
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 teeth	nmod:poss
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 clean	obj
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 clean	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would				a desert island with no toothbrush			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	clean	infinitive		your teeth				good property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

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

Drinking seawater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	seawater	seawater	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		seawater					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seawater=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Rubbing them hard with handfuls of wet sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Rubbing	obj
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rubbing	xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 handfuls	case
5	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rubbing	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sand	case
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sand	amod
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 handfuls	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	gerund		them = they				with handfuls of wet sand; hard property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with handful=Theme

Option 3

Eating dried fruit all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fruit	amod
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eating	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eating	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		dried fruit			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
2	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Chewing the end of a twig into a brush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chewing	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 twig	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 twig	det
6	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 brush	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 brush	det
9	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chewing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	gerund		the end of a twig		a brush			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient

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