Test 8 · ★★ · Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad
A dentist gives Ana a pink tablet to chew and her teeth go pink in spots. What do the pink spots show?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dentist, teeth, pink spots · What happens: give, chew, go, be, show · To what, where: pink tablet, Ana, spots
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 63 «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» 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
Sentence 1: A dentist gives Ana a pink tablet to chew and her teeth go pink in spots.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dentist | det |
| 2 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tablet | det |
| 6 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tablet | amod |
| 7 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 chew | mark |
| 9 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tablet | acl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 go | nsubj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gives | conj |
| 14 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 go | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 spots | case |
| 16 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | a dentist | a pink tablet | Ana | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ana=Recipient tablet=Theme | |||
| 2 | chew | to-infinitive | a dentist not said here | a pink tablet not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | present | dentist's teeth | spots | pink property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spot=Location |
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.
Sentence 2: What do the pink spots show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 show | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spots | det |
| 4 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spots | amod |
| 5 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 show | nsubj |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | show | present | the pink spots | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Food colouring left on her teeth from her breakfast cereal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 colouring | compound |
| 2 | colouring | colouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 colouring | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 teeth | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 cereal | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cereal | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cereal | compound |
| 10 | cereal | cereal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | Food colouring not said here | her teeth | from her breakfast cereal | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cereal=Initial_Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Plaque, the sticky film of bacteria she missed brushing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plaque | plaque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 missed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 film | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 film | det |
| 4 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 film | amod |
| 5 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Plaque | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bacteria | case |
| 7 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 film | nmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 missed | nsubj |
| 9 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | brushing | brush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 missed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | Plaque and the sticky film of bacteria | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | brush | gerund | Plaque and the sticky film of bacteria not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | film | bacteria | nom film «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
Holes that are already in her teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 teeth | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 teeth | cop |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 teeth | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 teeth | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Holes | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Holes | her teeth | tree rules |
Option 4
Places where her teeth are strongest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strongest | nsubj |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 strongest | advmod |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strongest | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 strongest | cop |
| 6 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Places | strong property | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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