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Test 1 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

A girl in Phoenix brushes well twice a day but never cleans between her teeth. What could happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: brush, not clean, happen

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 74 «Flossing and caring for 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 girl in Phoenix brushes well twice a day but never cleans between her teeth.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brushes	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Phoenix	case
4	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	brushes	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 brushes	advmod
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 brushes	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brushes	obl:unmarked
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 cleans	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 cleans	advmod
12	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brushes	conj
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 teeth	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 teeth	nmod:poss
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cleans	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brushes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	present	a girl in Phoenix				day	twice, well property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not clean	present	a girl in Phoenix not said here					between girl's teeth	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 could happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Her teeth would grow crooked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	crooked	crook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Her teeth						tree rules
2	crook	participle	Her teeth not said here						vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Plaque between the teeth could cause decay there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plaque	plaque	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	nsubj
2	between	between	ADP	_	4 teeth	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teeth	det
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Plaque	nmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cause	aux
6	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	decay	decay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cause	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	could	Plaque between the teeth	decay		there			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition decay=Patient

Option 3

Her teeth would get too clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 clean	advmod
6	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Her teeth					clean property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nothing, because brushing well reaches everywhere in the mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 reaches	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reaches	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 reaches	mark
4	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 reaches	csubj
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 brushing	advmod
6	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 reaches	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mouth	det
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reaches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	gerund						well property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reach	present	Nothing			the mouth		everywhere property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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