Test 16 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

whats the point of floss, i brush twice a day

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: whats · What happens: brush, point · To what, where: floss

This is test 16 · ★ 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	whats	what	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brush	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 point	det
3	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 whats	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 floss	case
5	floss	floss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 point	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 whats	punct
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 brush	nsubj
8	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 brush	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brush	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	present	whats				day	twice property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	point			floss					nom point «cognition 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

It makes your teeth whiter only

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	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	only	only	ADV	_	2 makes	advmod

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

Option 2

It stops your teeth from growing

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 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	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 stops	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 growing	mark
6	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stops	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	your teeth					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tooth=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It cleans between the teeth where holes start and a brush cannot reach

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 cleans	nsubj
2	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	between	between	ADP	_	5 teeth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teeth	det
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cleans	obl
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 start	advmod
7	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 start	nsubj
8	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cleans	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 reach	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 brush	det
11	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reach	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 reach	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 reach	advmod
14	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 start	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	clean	present	It	between the teeth	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	start	present	holes		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	not reach	can	a brush		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is just for people with braces

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	5 people	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 people	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 people	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 braces	case
7	braces	brace	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for people; with braces	tree rules

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