Test 2 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

Which is true about brushing at night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, brush

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 brushing	mark
5	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brushing	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	brush	gerund					night		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 · ← Mova's choice

It matters least because you do not eat anything at night while you sleep

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	2 matters	nsubj
2	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 matters	advmod
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 eat	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 eat	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 eat	advmod
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 matters	advcl
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 eat	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obl
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 sleep	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 sleep	nsubj
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 matters	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	It			least property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	not eat	present · do-support	you	anything	night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
3	sleep	present	you				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is needed only for grown-up teeth

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	3 needed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needed	aux:pass
3	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 teeth	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 teeth	case
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 teeth	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 grown	compound:prt
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		It				for grown teeth	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is only needed if you ate sweets

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 needed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 needed	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 needed	advmod
4	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 ate	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 ate	nsubj
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 needed	ccomp
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		It					tree rules
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	past	you	sweets					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It matters most because the mouth has less spit while you sleep

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	2 matters	nsubj
2	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 matters	advmod
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 has	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouth	det
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 matters	advcl
8	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 spit	amod
9	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 sleep	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sleep	nsubj
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 matters	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	matter	present	It		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	present	the mouth	less spit	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spit=Patient
3	sleep	present	you		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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