Test 8 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

Why do people brush the tongue?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: brush · To what, where: tongue

This is test 8 · ★ 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	4 brush	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brush	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brush	nsubj
4	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tongue	det
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brush	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 brush	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	present · do-support	people	the tongue					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=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

To remove germs that cause bad breath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 remove	mark
2	remove	remove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remove	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cause	nsubj
5	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 germs	acl:relcl
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 breath	amod
7	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	to-infinitive		germs					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	cause	present	germs	bad breath					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition breath=Patient

Option 2

To help the taste buds grow back faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grow	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 buds	det
4	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buds	compound
5	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive	the taste buds not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	grow back	present	the taste buds					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

To clean food from between the back teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 clean	mark
2	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clean	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 teeth	case
5	between	between	ADP	_	8 teeth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 teeth	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teeth	compound
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	to-infinitive		food		the back teeth			vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from tooth=Source

Option 4

To make the tongue stronger and longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tongue	det
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 longer	cc
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 stronger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the tongue				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tongue=Product

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