Test 16 · ★ · Brushing your teeth
baby teeth fall out anyway so why bother brushing em
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby teeth · What happens: fall out
This is test 16 · ★ 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 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teeth | compound |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fall | nsubj |
| 3 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 fall | compound:prt |
| 5 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 3 fall | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 why | advmod |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 fall | parataxis |
| 8 | bother | bother | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brushing | det |
| 9 | brushing | brushing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 why | nsubj |
| 10 | em | em | PUNCT | _ | 3 fall | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | present | baby teeth | anyway property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
It does not matter until you are 12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 matter | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 matter | advmod |
| 4 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | until | until | ADP | _ | 8 12 | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 12 | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 12 | cop |
| 8 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 matter | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | It | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | you | until 12 | tree rules |
Option 2
Brushing baby teeth makes them fall faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brushing | brush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 makes | csubj |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teeth | compound |
| 3 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Brushing | obj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 fall | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | gerund | baby teeth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Brushing | teeth = tooth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | teeth = tooth not said here | fast property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Baby teeth cannot get holes at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teeth | compound |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | can | Baby teeth | holes | all | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hole=Theme at all=Asset |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Rotten baby teeth hurt, get infected and can harm the new ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 teeth | amod |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teeth | compound |
| 3 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | parataxis |
| 7 | infected | infected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 harm | cc |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 harm | aux |
| 10 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hurt | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ones | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 harm | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present | Rotten baby teeth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | infected property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | harm | can | Rotten baby teeth not said here | the new ones | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer |
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