Test 14 · ★ · Teeth, nails, baths and toilets

too tired to brush teeth tonight, it's fine once yeah

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: brush, be · To what, where: teeth

This is test 14 · ★ 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	too	too	ADV	_	2 tired	advmod
2	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brush	advcl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 brush	mark
4	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brush	obj
6	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brush	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fine	expl
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brush	conj
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 fine	advmod
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 brush	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	to-infinitive		teeth			tonight		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
2	is	present						fine, once property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Only brush in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 brush	advmod
2	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 morning	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 morning	det
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brush	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	imperative	you not said here				morning		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Rinse with juice instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rinse	rinse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 juice	case
3	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rinse	obl
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Rinse	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rinse	imperative	you not said here					with juice; instead property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Brush anyway, sugar on teeth all night causes decay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Brush	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sugar	punct
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brush	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sugar	nmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 causes	nsubj
9	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Brush	parataxis
10	decay	decay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 causes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	imperative	you not said here	sugar on teeth				anyway property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cause	present	all night	decay					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition decay=Patient

Option 4

Yes, skipping is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	skipping	skipping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fine	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	skipping					fine 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/t14/