Test 11 · ★ · Teeth, nails, baths and toilets

bit of chicken stuck in my teeth, gonna use a fork

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: stick, use · To what, where: chicken, teeth, bit

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	obl:unmarked
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 chicken	case
3	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bit	nmod
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chicken	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 teeth	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teeth	nmod:poss
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stuck	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct
9	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	10 use	dep
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fork	det
12	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle		chicken not said here		my teeth			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tooth=Destination
2	use	imperative	you not said here	bit of chicken					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=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

Leave it there for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Leave	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 week	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it		there	week		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Use a pin, it's thinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pin	det
3	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinner	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thinner	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thinner	cop
7	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Use	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a pin					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Patient
2	is	present	pin					thin property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, the fork's fine if you're careful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fork	det
4	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fine	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fork	case
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 careful	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 careful	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 careful	cop
10	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					careful property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Use floss, never a fork or pin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	floss	floss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fork	punct
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 fork	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fork	det
6	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floss	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 pin	cc
8	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fork	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	floss and a fork or pin					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floss=Patient

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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