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Test 1 · ★ · Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food

A girl in Arizona has popcorn stuck in her teeth and reaches for a safety pin. What should she do instead?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: have, stick, reach, do · To what, where: popcorn, teeth

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 289 «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» 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 girl in Arizona has popcorn stuck in her teeth and reaches for a safety pin.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Arizona	case
4	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	popcorn	popcorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
7	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 popcorn	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 teeth	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 teeth	nmod:poss
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stuck	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 reaches	cc
12	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 pin	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pin	det
15	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pin	compound
16	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reaches	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a girl in Arizona	popcorn					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent popcorn=Patient
2	stick	participle		popcorn not said here		girl's teeth			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tooth=Destination
3	reach	present	a girl in Arizona not said here					for a safety pin	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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.

Sentence 2: What should she do instead?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 do	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	girl					instead property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Use a kitchen knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knife	compound
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a kitchen knife					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Use a toothpick made of metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 toothpick	det
3	toothpick	toothpick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 toothpick	acl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 metal	case
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	a toothpick					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothpick=Patient
2	make	participle		a toothpick not said here				of metal	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

Ignore it for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 week	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 week	det
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ignore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it			week		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Use dental floss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	dental	dental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 floss	amod
3	floss	floss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	dental floss					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floss=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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