Test 7 · Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath

What would most likely happen if you sipped water and brushed your tongue every morning?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, sip, brush · To what, where: water, tongue

This is test 7 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 sipped	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 sipped	nsubj
8	sipped	sip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sipped	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brushed	cc
11	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sipped	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tongue	nmod:poss
13	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brushed	obj
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brushed	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sip a condition, not said to happen	past	you	water			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	brush	past	you not said here	your tongue	morning		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

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

Morning breath would be less smelly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breath	compound
2	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smelly	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 smelly	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 smelly	cop
5	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 smelly	advmod
6	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Morning breath					less, smelly property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

You would stop making saliva

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	You						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	make	gerund	You not said here	saliva					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset saliva=Product

Option 3

Your teeth would turn white overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp
6	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	Your teeth					overnight, white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Your tongue would grow back thicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tongue	nmod:poss
2	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
6	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	would	Your tongue					thick property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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