Test 15 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

bro opens bottles with his teeth like a legend lol

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro · What happens: open · To what, where: bottles

This is test 15 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opens	nsubj
2	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 opens	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 teeth	nmod:poss
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 opens	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 legend	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 legend	det
9	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teeth	nmod
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 opens	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	bro	bottles				with bro's teeth like a legend	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient with tooth=Instrument

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

It makes your teeth stronger over time

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 teeth	nmod:poss
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 time	case
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stronger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	your teeth				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material tooth=Product

Option 2

It is fine if the cap is already loose

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	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 loose	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cap	det
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loose	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 loose	cop
8	already	already	ADV	_	9 loose	advmod
9	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the cap					loose property	tree rules

Option 3

It only ever hurts the plastic bottles

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 hurts	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 hurts	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 hurts	advmod
4	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottles	det
6	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bottles	amod
7	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	It	the plastic bottles			ever		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottle=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can crack a tooth, use an opener

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 crack	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crack	aux
3	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tooth	det
5	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crack	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 crack	conj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 opener	det
9	opener	opener	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	can	It	a tooth					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tooth=Theme
2	use	infinitive		a opener					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opener=Patient

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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