Test 5 · Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom

Why is sharing a toothbrush a bad idea?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: share · To what, where: toothbrush

This is test 5 of lesson 118 «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 sharing	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sharing	aux
3	sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 toothbrush	det
5	toothbrush	toothbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sharing	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 idea	det
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 idea	amod
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sharing	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sharing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present · progressive		a toothbrush					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

Toothpaste stops working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stops	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Toothpaste						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	Toothpaste not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Toothbrushes change colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toothbrushes	toothbrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Toothbrushes	colour					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 3

The bristles wear out twice as fast when two people use them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bristles	det
2	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wear	nsubj
3	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 wear	compound:prt
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 fast	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 wear	advmod
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 use	mark
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 people	nummod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 use	nsubj
11	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fast	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear out	present	the bristles					fast property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	use	present	two people	bristles = bristle					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Germs pass from one mouth to the other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pass	nsubj
2	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 mouth	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 mouth	nummod
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pass	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 other	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 other	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present	Germs			one mouth		to the other	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location to other=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/118-energy-pets-and-bathroom/t5/