Test 1 · ★ · Brushing your teeth
A girl in Florida brushes very hard with a hard brush to get her teeth extra clean. What would probably happen?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: brush, get, happen · To what, where: teeth
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 73 «Brushing your teeth» 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 Florida brushes very hard with a hard brush to get her teeth extra clean.
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 brushes | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Florida | case |
| 4 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | brushes | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 hard | advmod |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 brushes | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 brush | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 brush | det |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brush | amod |
| 11 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brushes | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 brushes | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clean | amod |
| 17 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 get | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brushes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | present | a girl in Florida | with a hard brush; hard property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with brush=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | a girl in Florida not said here | girl's teeth | clean property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus |
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 probably happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 happen | advmod |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | probably property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, hard brushing is the best way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 brushing | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brushing | amod |
| 4 | brushing | brushing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nothing hard brushing | the best way | tree rules |
Option 2
Her teeth would never get holes again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | would | Her teeth | holes | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus |
Option 3
Her teeth would become much whiter and stay that way for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 whiter | advmod |
| 6 | whiter | white | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 become | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stay | cc |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 become | conj |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 ever | case |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 stay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | would | Her teeth | white property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | Her teeth not said here | that way | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Her gums would get sore and her teeth would wear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 gums | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gums | gum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wear | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wear | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 wear | aux |
| 10 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | Her gums | sore property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wear | would | her teeth | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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