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Test 2 · ★ · Teeth, nails, baths and toilets

A boy's friends say his breath smells even though he brushes his teeth. What might he be forgetting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends, breath · What happens: say, smell, brush, forget · To what, where: teeth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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 boy's friends say his breath smells even though he brushes his teeth.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 friends	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 boy	case
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 breath	nmod:poss
7	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smells	nsubj
8	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	even	even	ADV	_	12 brushes	advmod
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 brushes	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brushes	nsubj
12	brushes	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 smells	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 teeth	nmod:poss
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 brushes	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a boy's friends						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	smell	present	boy's breath						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	brush	present	breath	breath's teeth					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=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.

Sentence 2: What might he be forgetting?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 forgetting	obj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forgetting	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgetting	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 forgetting	aux
5	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 forgetting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	might · progressive	breath						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To brush his hair every morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 brush	mark
2	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brush	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brush	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	to-infinitive		his hair			morning		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

Option 2

To wash his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wash	mark
2	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	to-infinitive		his hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 3

To drink a glass of milk at bedtime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 drink	mark
2	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 glass	det
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 milk	case
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glass	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 bedtime	case
8	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	to-infinitive		a glass of milk		bedtime			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To brush his tongue gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 brush	mark
2	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tongue	nmod:poss
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brush	obj
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	2 brush	advmod

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

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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