Exam question 4 · Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food

State the correct means of cleaning between the teeth.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: State · What happens: mean, clean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 289 «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 correct	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 State	amod
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 cleaning	mark
6	cleaning	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	ccomp
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 teeth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 teeth	det
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cleaning	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	State						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	clean	gerund						between the teeth	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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

The tip of a fork, used gently and slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tip	det
2	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fork	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fork	det
5	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tip	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 used	punct
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tip	acl
8	gently	gently	ADV	_	7 used	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slowly	cc
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 gently	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		the tip of a fork not said here				gently property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A metal pin, held carefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pin	det
2	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pin	compound
3	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pin	punct
5	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 held	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle	a metal pin					carefully property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dental floss, and never a fork, pin or other sharp object

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dental	dental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 floss	amod
2	floss	floss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fork	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fork	cc
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 fork	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fork	det
7	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floss	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pin	punct
9	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floss	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 object	cc
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 object	amod
12	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 object	amod
13	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floss	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A toothpick of sharpened metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 toothpick	det
2	toothpick	toothpick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 metal	case
4	sharpened	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 metal	amod
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 toothpick	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sharpen	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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