Exam question 3 · Flossing and caring for your teeth

Which of the following most accurately characterises the appropriate everyday beverages for the protection of the teeth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris, protect · To what, where: appropriate everyday beverages, teeth

This is exam question 3 of lesson 74 «Flossing and caring for your teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 characterises	advmod
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	7 characterises	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beverages	det
9	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beverages	amod
10	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beverages	amod
11	beverages	beverage	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 characterises	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 protection	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 protection	det
14	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beverages	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 teeth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 teeth	det
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 protection	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the appropriate everyday beverages	for the protection of the teeth; accurately property	tree rules
3	protect		the teeth		nom protection «act transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Water and milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 milk	cc
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Sweetened tea and cola

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweetened	sweeten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tea	amod
2	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cola	cc
4	cola	cola	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tea	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweeten	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Sports drinks and squash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drinks	compound
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 squash	cc
4	squash	squash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinks	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Fizzy drinks and fruit juice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drinks	amod
2	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 juice	cc
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 juice	compound
5	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinks	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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