Test 5 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

Why should two sisters never use the same toothbrush?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: two sisters · What happens: not use · To what, where: same toothbrush

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 use	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sisters	nummod
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 use	advmod
6	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 toothbrush	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 toothbrush	amod
9	toothbrush	toothbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	should	two sisters	the same toothbrush					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothbrush=Patient

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

One of them might use too much toothpaste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 use	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 use	aux
5	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toothpaste	amod
8	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	might	One of them	much toothpaste					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothpaste=Patient

Option 2

It wears out twice as fast and then stops cleaning at all

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 wears	nsubj
2	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 wears	compound:prt
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 fast	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 wears	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stops	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 stops	advmod
9	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wears	conj
10	cleaning	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stops	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 cleaning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear out	present	It			fast property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present			then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	clean	gerund		all			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can pass germs and blood from one mouth to the other

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 pass	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
3	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pass	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 blood	cc
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 germs	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 mouth	nummod
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pass	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 other	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	can	It	germs and blood		one mouth		to the other	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent germ=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location to other=Destination

Option 4

Their teeth are different sizes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sizes	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sizes	cop
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sizes	amod
5	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Their teeth	different sizes					tree rules

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