Test 4 · Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath

«brushed me teeth twice after the garlic bread, why do I still stink» What is the truth?

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

This is test 4 of lesson 356 «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» 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 brushed	punct
2	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 brushed	obj
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brushed	obj
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 brushed	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 bread	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bread	det
8	garlic	garlic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bread	compound
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stink	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stink	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 stink	advmod
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stink	aux
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 stink	nsubj
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 stink	advmod
15	stink	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 brushed	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 brushed	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 brushed	parataxis
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 What	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 truth	det
20	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 What	nsubj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 brushed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	brush in a quote	past		me		twice property	tree rules
2	stink in a quote	present · do-support	I		after the garlic bread; still		vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location
3	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

Garlic comes out through the lungs from the blood, so brushing cannot stop it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Garlic	garlic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 comes	compound:prt
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 lungs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lungs	det
6	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 blood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 blood	det
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lungs	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stop	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 stop	advmod
12	brushing	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 stop	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 stop	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 stop	advmod
15	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 comes	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come out	present	Garlic		the lungs from the blood	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	brush	gerund				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not stop	can		Garlic		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Garlic is stuck behind the teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Garlic	garlic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stuck	aux:pass
3	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 teeth	det
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present · passive		Garlic		the teeth			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme behind tooth=Destination

Option 3

He did not brush long enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brush	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brush	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 brush	advmod
4	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 brush	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 brush	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not brush	past · do-support	He					enough, long property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Toothpaste makes garlic smell stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	garlic	garlic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smell	compound
4	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Toothpaste	garlic smell				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smell=Product

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