Test 6 · ★ · Brushing your teeth
A boy in Glasgow has breakfast with a big glass of orange juice and wants to brush right after. What is wiser?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: have, want, brush, be · To what, where: breakfast
This is test 6 · ★ 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: A boy in Glasgow has breakfast with a big glass of orange juice and wants to brush right after.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Glasgow | case |
| 4 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 glass | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 glass | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 glass | amod |
| 10 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 breakfast | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 juice | case |
| 12 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 juice | amod |
| 13 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 glass | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wants | cc |
| 15 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 brush | mark |
| 17 | brush | brush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wants | xcomp |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 19 after | advmod |
| 19 | after | after | ADV | _ | 17 brush | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a boy in Glasgow | breakfast | with a big glass of orange juice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | |||
| 2 | want | present | a boy in Glasgow not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | brush not said to happen | to-infinitive | a boy in Glasgow not said here | after property | 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.
Sentence 2: What is wiser?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wiser | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wiser | cop |
| 3 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wiser | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wise property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Skip brushing in the morning altogether
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skip | skip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brushing | compound |
| 2 | brushing | brushing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 morning | det |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brushing | nmod |
| 6 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 2 brushing | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Drink more juice so the acid gets weaker and weaker
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 juice | amod |
| 3 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drink | obj |
| 4 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 7 gets | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 acid | det |
| 6 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Drink | advcl |
| 8 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 gets | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 weaker | cc |
| 10 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 weaker | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | imperative | you not said here | more juice | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | present | the acid | weak property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Brush much harder than usual after the juice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brush | brush | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 harder | advmod |
| 3 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Brush | xcomp |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 usual | case |
| 5 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 harder | obl |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 juice | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 juice | det |
| 8 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brush | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | imperative | you not said here | after the juice | hard property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Brush before breakfast or wait about an hour after
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hour | nsubj |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 3 breakfast | case |
| 3 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brush | nmod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 wait | cc |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Brush | conj |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 hour | advmod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hour | det |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 hour | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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