Test 14 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

skipped brushing for like weeks, its fine right

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: skip, brush · To what, where: fine right

This is test 14 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 skipped	advcl
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 weeks	case
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 weeks	case
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brushing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 skipped	punct
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 right	nmod:poss
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 right	amod
9	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 skipped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past		its fine right					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Agent
2	brush	gerund					week		vn floss-41.2.1 «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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, if you rinse with juice or fizzy pop instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 rinse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rinse	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 rinse	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 rinse	nsubj
5	rinse	rinse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 juice	case
7	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rinse	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 pop	cc
9	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pop	amod
10	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 juice	conj
11	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 rinse	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rinse	present	you					with juice or fizzy pop; instead property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, teeth clean themselves while you eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 clean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clean	nsubj
4	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 clean	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 eat	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 eat	nsubj
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clean	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present	teeth	teeth = tooth					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	eat	present	you						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

No, plaque makes holes that hurt and need fillings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 makes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	plaque	plaque	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hurt	nsubj
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 holes	acl:relcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 need	cc
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	conj
10	fillings	filling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	present	plaque	holes	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
2	hurt	present	holes		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	need	present	holes not said here	fillings	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot filling=Theme

Option 4

Only adult teeth can get holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 teeth	advmod
2	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teeth	amod
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	can	adult teeth	holes					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus

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