Test 9 · ★ · Teeth: enamel, sugar, holes, brushing and the dentist

«song's 2 minutes, I brush through the whole song» Is that about right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: song, I · What happens: be, brush · To what, where: 2 minutes, whole song · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	5 minutes	punct
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 minutes	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 minutes	cop
4	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brush	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 minutes	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 brush	nsubj
8	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	parataxis
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 song	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 song	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 song	amod
12	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brush	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 brush	punct
14	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 right	mark
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 right	advmod
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	song	2 minutes			tree rules
2	brush in a quote	present	I		the whole song		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through song=Destination
3	is	present				about, 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

No, a song is far too long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 long	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 long	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 long	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 long	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a song					far, long property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, about two minutes is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 right	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 two	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 right	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 right	cop
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

No, you need a whole hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hour	amod
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	you				hour		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

No, one second is enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 enough	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 second	nummod
4	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enough	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 enough	cop
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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