Test 16 · ★★ · Anger and fears

Why did the Vancouver girl's hidden toothache end with the tooth taken out?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, take out · To what, where: hidden toothache end, tooth

This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 212 «Anger and fears» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 girl	compound
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 girl	case
7	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 end	amod
8	toothache	toothache	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	compound
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 tooth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tooth	det
12	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tooth	acl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 taken	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Vancouver girl's hidden toothache end				with the tooth	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Eventuality
2	take out	participle		the tooth not said here					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Toothache always ends that way in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toothache	toothache	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 ends	advmod
3	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	Toothache	that way			in the end	always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality way=Eventuality

Option 2

Telling someone only makes teeth worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 makes	csubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Telling	obj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 makes	advmod
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			someone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient
2	make	present	Telling	teeth				bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tooth=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The problem grew while nobody knew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 problem	det
2	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 knew	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the problem						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Dentists always take out every bad tooth they see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 take	advmod
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 take	compound:prt
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 tooth	det
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tooth	amod
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
9	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tooth	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	present	Dentists	every bad tooth				always property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
2	see	present	Dentists = dentist	every bad tooth not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus

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