Test 19 · ★ · Teeth, nails, baths and toilets

apparently that kid in our class has really bad breath cos he never brushes, everyone's saying it. pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, everyone · What happens: have, not brush, say, pass on · To what, where: bad breath, breath · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	3 kid	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 kid	det
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 class	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 class	nmod:poss
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kid	nmod
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 bad	advmod
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 breath	amod
10	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
11	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 brushes	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brushes	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 brushes	advmod
14	brushes	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 has	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 saying	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 saying	aux
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 brushes	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saying	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 pass	punct
21	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 saying	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pass	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	21 pass	compound:prt
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	that kid in our class	bad breath	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Patient
2	not brush	present	kid		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone	breath	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	pass on	infinitive		breath	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

Yes, if you say it as a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 say	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 joke	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 joke	det
9	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	you	it				as a joke	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, so he finally brushes his teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 brushes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 brushes	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brushes	nsubj
5	finally	finally	ADV	_	6 brushes	advmod
6	brushes	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 teeth	nmod:poss
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brushes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	present	he	his teeth				finally property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme

Option 3

Yes, it's just the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 truth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 truth	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 truth	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 truth	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the truth					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, that's hurtful gossip about him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 gossip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gossip	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 gossip	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gossip	cop
5	hurtful	hurtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gossip	amod
6	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gossip	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	hurtful gossip				about him = he	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.

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