Exam question 4 · Flossing and caring for your teeth

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning a tooth that is painful upon contact with cold or sweet substances.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts, tooth · What happens: select, establish, concern, be · To what, where: response, tooth

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tooth	det
11	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 painful	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 painful	cop
14	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tooth	acl:relcl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 contact	case
16	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 painful	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 substances	case
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 substances	amod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 sweet	cc
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cold	conj
21	substances	substance	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 contact	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	a tooth		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tooth=Experiencer
4	is	present	a tooth		upon contact with cold substances; painful property	tree rules

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

It is merely growing and requires no attention whatsoever from anyone

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	4 growing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	aux
3	merely	merely	ADV	_	4 growing	advmod
4	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 requires	cc
6	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	conj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 attention	det
8	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 requires	obj
9	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	6 requires	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 anyone	case
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 requires	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · progressive	It					merely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	require	present		no attention		anyone		whatsoever property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Theme attention=Precondition from anyone=Source

Option 2

It is a sign that brushing must cease

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	4 sign	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sign	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 cease	mark
6	brushing	brushing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cease	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 cease	aux
8	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sign	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a sign					tree rules
2	cease	must	brushing	a sign not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sign=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It may contain a cavity requiring treatment by a dentist

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 contain	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 contain	aux
3	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cavity	det
5	cavity	cavity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contain	obj
6	requiring	require	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 cavity	acl
7	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 requiring	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 dentist	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dentist	det
10	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	contain	may	It	a cavity				by a dentist	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cavity=Theme
2	require	gerund	a cavity not said here	treatment					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme treatment=Precondition

Option 4

It will be cured by eating more sugar

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	4 cured	nsubj:pass
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cured	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 cured	aux:pass
4	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cured	advcl
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 sugar	amod
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	future · passive		It					vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source
2	eat	gerund		more sugar					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient

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