Test 14 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

gums bleed a bit when i brush, should i stop brushing there

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gums, i · What happens: bleed, brush, stop · To what, where: bit

This is test 14 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gums	gum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bleed	nsubj
2	bleed	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bleed	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 brush	advmod
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 brush	nsubj
7	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bleed	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	aux
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 stop	nsubj
11	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bleed	conj
12	brushing	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stop	xcomp
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 brushing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bleed	present	gums	a bit		vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Source
2	brush	present	i			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	should	i			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	brush	gerund	i not said here		there	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Only brush there on Sundays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 brush	advmod
2	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 brush	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Sundays	case
5	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 brush	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	imperative	you not said here			there	sunday		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, stop brushing there for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	brushing	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 brushing	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 good	case
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brushing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	brush	gerund	you not said here			there		for good	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, rub salt hard on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 salt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	rub	rub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 salt	compound
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 salt	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 salt	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, keep brushing gently and floss, bleeding gums need cleaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	brushing	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 brushing	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 floss	cc
7	floss	floss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brushing	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bleeding	punct
9	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 gums	amod
10	gums	gum	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 need	nsubj
11	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	ccomp
12	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	brush	gerund	you not said here		gently property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bleed	gerund				vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	need	present	bleeding gums	cleaning		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cleaning=Theme

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