Test 17 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

did u hear Jake had ALL his teeth pulled out cos he never brushed, like every single one lol, what's the lesson

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, Jake, teeth · What happens: hear, have, pull out, not brush, be · To what, where: teeth, single one, lesson · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
6	ALL	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 teeth	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 teeth	nmod:poss
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 teeth	acl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 pulled	compound:prt
11	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 brushed	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brushed	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 brushed	advmod
14	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pulled	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 one	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 one	det
18	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brushed	obj
20	lol	lol	INTJ	_	19 one	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lesson	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 lesson	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 lesson	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lesson	det
25	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teeth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	Jake	Jake's teeth and the lesson	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
3	pull out	participle		Jake's teeth and the lesson not said here	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not brush	past	Jake	every single one	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	is a	present	Jake's teeth and the lesson	the lesson	tree rules

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

Brush once a week and it is enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Brush	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 week	det
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 once	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 enough	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 enough	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 enough	cop
8	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Brush	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	imperative	you not said here					once property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					enough property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Brush twice a day, or holes grow and teeth can be lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Brush	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brush	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grow	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 grow	cc
7	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grow	nsubj
8	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 teeth	cc
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grow	obj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 lost	aux:pass
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Brush	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	brush	imperative	you not said here		day	twice property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	present	holes	teeth			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tooth=Theme
3	lose	can · passive					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»

Option 3

Only sweets matter, brushing does nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 sweets	advmod
2	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 matter	nsubj
3	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brushing	punct
5	brushing	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 does	nsubj
6	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 matter	parataxis
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 does	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	matter	present	sweets		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	brush	gerund			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present		nothing	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 4

Teeth fall out anyway, so brushing does not matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fall	nsubj
2	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 fall	compound:prt
4	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 fall	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 matter	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 matter	advmod
7	brushing	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 matter	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 matter	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 matter	advmod
10	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fall	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fall out	present	Teeth	anyway property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	brush	gerund			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not matter	present · do-support			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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