Test 4 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

How often should a toothbrush usually be replaced?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: replace · To what, where: toothbrush

This is test 4 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 often	advmod
2	often	often	ADV	_	8 replaced	advmod
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 replaced	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 toothbrush	det
5	toothbrush	toothbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replaced	nsubj:pass
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 replaced	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 replaced	aux:pass
8	replaced	replace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 replaced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	replace	should · passive		a toothbrush				often, usually property	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

About every three months, or when the bristles splay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	4 months	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 months	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 months	nummod
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 splay	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 splay	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 splay	cc
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 splay	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bristles	det
9	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 splay	nsubj
10	splay	splay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splay	present	every three months						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Once a year, on your birthday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 year	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 year	punct
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 birthday	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 birthday	nmod:poss
7	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 year	nmod

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

Option 3

Every week, after each Sunday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 week	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 Sunday	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 Sunday	det
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 week	nmod

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

Option 4

Only when it breaks in two or the handle snaps off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 breaks	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 breaks	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 breaks	nsubj
4	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 two	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 breaks	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 snaps	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 handle	det
9	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snaps	nsubj
10	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 breaks	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 snaps	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	it			two			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location
2	snap off	present	the handle						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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