Test 4 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…

«lost my big tooth playing footie, it'll grow back like a shark's» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: big tooth, footie · What happens: lose, play, grow back, be · To what, where: big tooth, footie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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 lost	punct
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tooth	nmod:poss
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tooth	amod
5	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
6	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tooth	acl
7	footie	footie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 playing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grow	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grow	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grow	aux
11	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lost	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 grow	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 shark	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shark	det
15	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grow	obl
16	's	's	PART	_	15 shark	case
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lost	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	past		my big tooth		tree rules
2	play in a quote	gerund	my big tooth not said here	footie		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footie=Theme
3	grow back in a quote	future	footie		like a shark	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present			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 · ✓ the right answer

No, adult teeth never grow back; sharks regrow theirs, we do not

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 teeth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teeth	compound
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 grow	advmod
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 regrow	punct
9	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 regrow	nsubj
10	regrow	regrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	conj
11	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 regrow	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 regrow	conj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not grow back	present	adult teeth		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	regrow	present	sharks	teeth = tooth	tree rules
3	not do	present	we		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, people grow a whole new set of teeth every ten years or so

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 set	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 set	amod
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 set	amod
8	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 teeth	case
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 set	nmod
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 years	det
12	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl:unmarked
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 so	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	4 grow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	people	a whole new set of teeth			year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location set=Theme

Option 3

No, but a shark tooth can be glued into the gap instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 glued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 glued	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 glued	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tooth	det
5	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tooth	compound
6	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glued	nsubj:pass
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 glued	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 glued	aux:pass
9	glued	glue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 gap	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gap	det
12	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glued	obl
13	instead	instead	ADV	_	9 glued	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	can · passive		a shark tooth		the gap		instead property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Yes, but only if you brush the gap twice every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 brush	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brush	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 brush	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 brush	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 brush	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 brush	nsubj
7	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gap	det
9	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brush	obj
10	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 brush	advmod
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brush	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	present	you	the gap			day	twice property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gap=Theme

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