Test 18 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

my cousin says if u swallow toothpaste ur stomach explodes, true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, u, stomach · What happens: say, swallow, explode · To what, where: toothpaste · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 swallow	mark
5	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 swallow	nsubj
6	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 explodes	advcl
7	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallow	obj
8	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stomach	nmod:poss
9	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 explodes	nsubj
10	explodes	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 true	punct
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 explodes	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	swallow a condition, not said to happen	present	u	toothpaste		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothpaste=Patient
3	explode	present	ur's stomach		true property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «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

False, eating toothpaste is good for you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 toothpaste	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 eating	punct
3	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 toothpaste	amod
4	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	False eating toothpaste					for you; good property	tree rules

Option 2

True, but only with minty toothpaste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toothpaste	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 toothpaste	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 toothpaste	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 toothpaste	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 toothpaste	case
6	minty	minty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toothpaste	amod
7	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

True, one swallow makes your stomach burst

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 swallow	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 swallow	nummod
4	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 burst	nmod:poss
7	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burst	compound
8	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	True one swallow	your stomach burst					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset burst=Product
2	burst		your						nom burst «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Exaggerated; just spit it out, as too much fluoride is not good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spit	advcl
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 spit	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 spit	advmod
4	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spit	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 spit	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 good	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 good	mark
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fluoride	amod
11	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 good	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 good	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 good	advmod
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	participle	you not said here			tree rules
2	spit out	imperative	you not said here	it		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	not is	present	much fluoride		good property	tree rules

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