Test 18 · ★ · Teeth, nails, baths and toilets

my cousin said she picked her teeth with a pin and it went right through her gum and she had to have surgery. probably blown up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, pin · What happens: say, pick, go, have, blow up · To what, where: teeth, gum, surgery · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 picked	nsubj
5	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teeth	nmod:poss
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 picked	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 pin	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pin	det
10	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 picked	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 picked	conj
14	right	right	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 gum	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 gum	nmod:poss
17	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 picked	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 have	mark
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
23	surgery	surgery	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
25	probably	probably	ADV	_	26 blown	advmod
26	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 blown	compound:prt
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my cousin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pick	past	cousin	cousin's teeth		with a pin	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
3	go	past	pin		cousin's gum	right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through gum=Initial_Location
4	have	past	cousin				tree rules
5	have	to-infinitive	cousin not said here	surgery			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surgery=Patient
6	blow up	participle				probably property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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

That food gets stuck in teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 food	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gets	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	that food					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The surgery part; but sharp things really cut gums, so use floss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 part	det
2	surgery	surgery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	compound
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 cut	cc
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cut	nsubj
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 cut	advmod
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 part	parataxis
10	gums	gum	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cut	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 use	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 use	advmod
13	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cut	conj
14	floss	floss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	sharp things	gums					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gum=Product
2	use	infinitive	sharp things not said here	floss					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floss=Patient

Option 3

That pins are sharp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 pins	det
2	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sharp	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sharp	cop
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

That floss removes food from teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 floss	det
2	floss	floss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 removes	nsubj
3	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 removes	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 removes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	present	that floss	food		teeth			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from tooth=Source

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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