Test 18 · ★ · Time, routines and sleep

my mate says brushing ur teeth for 10 seconds is enough if u do it hard

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, brushing, u · What happens: say, brush, be, do · To what, where: teeth, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 39 «Time, routines and sleep» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 enough	csubj
5	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 teeth	nmod:poss
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brushing	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 seconds	case
8	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 seconds	nummod
9	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brushing	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 enough	cop
11	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 do	mark
13	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	obj
16	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	brush	gerund		ur's teeth	second		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
3	is	present	brushing			enough property	tree rules
4	do a condition, not said to happen	present	u	mate		hard property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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

He is right, ten seconds is the rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rule	punct
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 seconds	nummod
6	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rule	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rule	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rule	det
9	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is a	present	ten seconds	the rule					tree rules

Option 2

He is right, once a week is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 fine	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fine	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	a week					fine, once property	tree rules

Option 3

He is right, hard brushing beats long brushing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 beats	punct
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brushing	amod
6	brushing	brushing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beats	nsubj
7	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brushing	amod
9	brushing	brushing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	beat	present	hard brushing	long brushing					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brushing=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not enough; brush for about two minutes, twice a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 enough	advmod
2	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brush	advcl
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 brush	punct
4	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 minutes	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 two	advmod
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 minutes	nummod
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brush	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 twice	punct
10	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 brush	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 twice	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	imperative	you not said here				minute	twice property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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