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Test 3 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

After brushing, a boy fills his mouth with water and rinses five times. What is he losing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: brush, fill, rinse, lose · To what, where: mouth

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: After brushing, a boy fills his mouth with water and rinses five times.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 brushing	mark
2	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fills	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 brushing	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fills	nsubj
6	fills	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fills	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fills	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rinses	cc
12	rinses	rinse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fills	conj
13	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rinses	obl:unmarked
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fills	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	gerund	a boy not said here						vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fill	present	a boy	boy's mouth				with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient with water=Instrument
3	rinse	present	a boy not said here				time		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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.

Sentence 2: What is he losing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 losing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 losing	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 losing	nsubj
4	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 losing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · progressive	boy						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The colour of his toothpaste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 toothpaste	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 toothpaste	nmod:poss
5	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	nmod

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

Option 2

Nothing at all, because rinsing well is always the best thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 thing	mark
6	rinsing	rinse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 thing	csubj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 rinsing	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 thing	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rinse	gerund						well property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	rinsing	the best thing				always property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The fluoride that would keep protecting his teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fluoride	det
2	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 keep	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fluoride	acl:relcl
6	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
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	6 protecting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	the fluoride						tree rules
2	protect	gerund	the fluoride not said here	his teeth					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary

Option 4

The plaque he has just cleaned off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plaque	det
2	plaque	plaque	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cleaned	nsubj:pass
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cleaned	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cleaned	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 cleaned	advmod
6	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 cleaned	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean off	present · perfect · passive		the plaque					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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