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Test 7 · ★★★ · Too many details, too few

Theo, back «from the dentist» — no sticker, normal mouth, eats a toffee straight away. What's most likely?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Theo · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: toffee

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 450 «Too many details, too few» 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: Theo, back «from the dentist» — no sticker, normal mouth, eats a toffee straight away.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 eats	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dentist	punct
3	back	back	ADV	_	7 dentist	advmod
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 dentist	punct
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 dentist	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dentist	det
7	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Theo	appos
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 dentist	punct
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 sticker	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 sticker	det
11	sticker	sticker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dentist	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mouth	punct
13	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mouth	amod
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sticker	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Theo	punct
16	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 toffee	det
18	toffee	toffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eats	obj
19	straight	straight	ADV	_	20 away	advmod
20	away	away	ADV	_	16 eats	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Theo	a toffee				away property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toffee=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.

Sentence 2: What's most likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	1 What	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present						likely property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

The dentist forgot the sticker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dentist	det
2	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	nsubj
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sticker	det
5	sticker	sticker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	the dentist	the sticker					tree rules

Option 2

Toffee is good after the dentist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toffee	Toffee	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 good	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 good	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 dentist	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dentist	det
6	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Toffee				after the dentist	good property	tree rules

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

He wasn't at the dentist

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	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 was	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 dentist	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dentist	det
6	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	past	He			the dentist			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dentist=Location

Option 4

Dentists don't touch teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 touch	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 touch	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 touch	advmod
4	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	present · do-support	Dentists	teeth					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tooth=Co-Theme

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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