Test 7 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

What makes the holes in teeth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: make · To what, where: holes, teeth

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 holes	det
4	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 holes	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		the holes		teeth			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material hole=Product

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

Acid made by plaque germs feeding on food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Acid	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 germs	case
4	plaque	plaque	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 germs	compound
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
6	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 germs	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feeding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		Acid not said here				by plaque germs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	feed	gerund	plaque germs not said here					on food	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on food=Patient

Option 2

Cold air getting into the mouth when you breathe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 air	acl
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 mouth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouth	det
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 getting	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 breathe	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 breathe	nsubj
9	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 getting	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund	Cold air not said here			the mouth			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into mouth=Destination
2	breathe	present	you						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Drinking far too much plain water every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 much	advmod
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
5	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		much plain water			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 4

Brushing the teeth too often, more than twice a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 more	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teeth	det
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Brushing	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 often	advmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	1 Brushing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Brushing	punct
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 day	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	gerund		the teeth				often property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme

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