Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache…

Wait, so the dentist yanked it out with tongs, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dentist · What happens: wait, yank out · To what, where: it

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 595 «Uncle Remus, The Toothache, part 31: a galloping toothache, a talking box, and a stranger who mistakes him» of the books 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 yanked	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 yanked	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dentist	det
5	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yanked	nsubj
6	yanked	yank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 yanked	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 yanked	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 tongs	case
10	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 yanked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 yanked	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	yank out	past	the dentist	it				with tongs	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

Yep, a pair of pliers that slipped twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 pair	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pair	det
4	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 pliers	case
6	pliers	plier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pair	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 slipped	nsubj
8	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pair	acl:relcl
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 slipped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	a pair of pliers					twice property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Yep, a big old pair of tongs that never let go of the tooth at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 pair	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pair	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pair	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pair	amod
6	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 tongs	case
8	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pair	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 let	obj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 let	advmod
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pair	acl:relcl
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tooth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tooth	det
15	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	past		a big old pair of tongs					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	a big old pair of tongs not said here			all		of the tooth	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of tooth=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, a pair of tongs that never let go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 pair	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pair	det
4	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 tongs	case
6	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pair	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 let	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 let	advmod
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pair	acl:relcl
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	infinitive	a pair of tongs						tree rules
2	go	infinitive	a pair of tongs not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he used a rusty wrench instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wrench	det
6	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wrench	amod
7	wrench	wrench	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 used	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	a rusty wrench				instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrench=Patient

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