Test 19 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

everyone's saying Ella's breath stinks cos she never brushes, should i tell people

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, breath, i · What happens: say, stink, not brush, tell · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 saying	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 breath	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Ella	case
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stinks	nsubj
7	stinks	stink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 brushes	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brushes	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 brushes	advmod
11	brushes	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stinks	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
14	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stink	present	Ella's breath		vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not brush	present	breath		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	should	i	people	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient

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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, everyone deserves to know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 deserves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 deserves	nsubj
4	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 know	mark
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 deserves	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	everyone						tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive	everyone not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yes, but only in a group chat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 chat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 chat	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 chat	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 chat	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chat	det
7	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chat	compound
8	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's unkind gossip, and it may not even be true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 gossip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gossip	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gossip	cop
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gossip	amod
6	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 true	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 true	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 true	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 true	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 true	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gossip	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	unkind gossip					tree rules
2	not is	may	gossip					true property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, and leave a toothbrush on her desk so she gets the hint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 leave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 leave	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 leave	cc
4	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 toothbrush	det
6	toothbrush	toothbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 desk	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 desk	nmod:poss
9	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 gets	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gets	nsubj
12	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hint	det
14	hint	hint	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	a toothbrush		her desk			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toothbrush=Theme on desk=Location
2	get	present	she	the hint					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hint=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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