Test 9 · ★ · Brushing your teeth
A little girl likes to swallow her sweet toothpaste. What should she learn?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little girl, girl · What happens: like, swallow, learn · To what, where: sweet toothpaste
This is test 9 · ★ 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 little girl likes to swallow her sweet toothpaste.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 likes | nsubj |
| 4 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 swallow | mark |
| 6 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 likes | xcomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 toothpaste | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 toothpaste | amod |
| 9 | toothpaste | toothpaste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swallow | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 likes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | a little girl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swallow not said to happen | to-infinitive | a little girl not said here | girl's sweet toothpaste | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothpaste=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.
Sentence 2: What should she learn?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 learn | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 learn | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 learn | nsubj |
| 4 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | should | girl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
It is fine because it tastes nice
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 fine | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 tastes | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tastes | nsubj |
| 6 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | advcl |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tastes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | taste | present | it | nice property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Toothpaste is for cleaning and should be spat out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toothpaste | toothpaste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleaning | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleaning | cop |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 cleaning | case |
| 4 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spat | cc |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 spat | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 spat | aux:pass |
| 8 | spat | spat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cleaning | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 spat | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Toothpaste | for cleaning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spat out | should · passive | Toothpaste not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V» |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Swallowing it makes the teeth stronger from the inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swallowing | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 makes | csubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Swallowing | obj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 teeth | det |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 inside | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 inside | det |
| 9 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | gerund | it | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Swallowing | the teeth | the inside | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset tooth=Product from inside=Material |
Option 4
She should swallow it only at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swallow | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 swallow | aux |
| 3 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swallow | obj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 night | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swallow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | should | She | it | night | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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