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Test 2 · ★ · Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed,…

A boy uses a toothpick-sharp pencil to clean his teeth and his gum starts bleeding. What would have been better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, gum · What happens: use, clean, start, bleed, be · To what, where: sharp pencil, teeth

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 317 «Teeth, baths and showers, safety glasses, getting dressed, 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 boy uses a toothpick-sharp pencil to clean his teeth and his gum starts bleeding.

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	3 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pencil	det
5	toothpick	toothpick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sharp	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 toothpick	punct
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pencil	amod
8	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 clean	mark
10	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 uses	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 teeth	nmod:poss
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 clean	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 starts	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 gum	nmod:poss
15	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 starts	nsubj
16	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 uses	conj
17	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 starts	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	a boy	a sharp pencil					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Patient
2	clean	to-infinitive	a boy not said here	boy's teeth					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
3	start	present	boy's gum						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	bleed	gerund	boy's gum not said here						vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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 would have been better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 better	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 What	amod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A sharper pencil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pencil	det
2	sharper	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 pencil	amod
3	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A fingernail pressed hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fingernail	det
2	fingernail	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fingernail	acl
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 pressed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	participle		a fingernail not said here				hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A knife from the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 kitchen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kitchen	det
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knife	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dental floss

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

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

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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