Test 1 · ★ · Teeth, nails, baths and toilets
A girl in Leeds brushes, spits, then gulps lots of water to rinse. What advice would her dentist give?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, advice · What happens: gulp, rinse, give · To what, where: lots
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 208 «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» 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
Sentence 1: A girl in Leeds brushes, spits, then gulps lots of water to rinse.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gulps | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 brushes | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brushes | compound |
| 5 | brushes | brush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 girl | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spits | punct |
| 7 | spits | spit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brushes | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 girl | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 gulps | advmod |
| 10 | gulps | gulp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gulps | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lots | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rinse | mark |
| 15 | rinse | rinse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gulps | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gulps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gulp | present | a girl in Leeds brushes and spits | lots of water | then | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | |||
| 2 | rinse | to-infinitive | a girl in Leeds brushes and spits not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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 advice would her dentist give?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 give | obj |
| 2 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dentist | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would | advice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Never spit, just swallow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 spit | advmod |
| 2 | spit | spit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 swallow | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 swallow | advmod |
| 5 | swallow | swallow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 spit | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spit | imperative | you not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swallow | infinitive | you not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Rinse three times with warm water to be extra clean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rinse | rinse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rinse | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 water | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rinse | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 extra | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 extra | cop |
| 9 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Rinse | advcl |
| 10 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 extra | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rinse | imperative | you not said here | time | with warm water | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | extra property | tree rules |
Option 3
Brush with water and no toothpaste
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brush | brush | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 water | case |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brush | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 toothpaste | cc |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 toothpaste | det |
| 6 | toothpaste | toothpaste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 water | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | imperative | you not said here | with water and no toothpaste | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Spit, but skip the big rinse so the fluoride stays on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skip | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 skip | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 skip | cc |
| 4 | skip | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rinse | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rinse | amod |
| 7 | rinse | rinse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skip | obj |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 11 stays | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fluoride | det |
| 10 | fluoride | fluoride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stays | nsubj |
| 11 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 skip | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 stays | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | infinitive | Spit | the big rinse | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rinse=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stay on | present | the fluoride | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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