Test 17 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

heard a boy at footy got his tooth knocked out and the dentist just glued it back in like nothing, what's the real lesson

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: footy, tooth, dentist · What happens: hear, get, knock out, glue back, be · To what, where: boy, tooth, real lesson · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obj
4	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
5	footy	footy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tooth	nmod:poss
8	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knocked	nsubj
9	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 knocked	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 glued	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dentist	det
13	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 glued	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 glued	advmod
15	glued	glue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 glued	obj
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 glued	advmod
18	in	in	ADV	_	15 glued	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 nothing	case
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 glued	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lesson	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 lesson	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 lesson	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lesson	det
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lesson	amod
26	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past		a boy		tree rules
2	get	past	footy			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	knock out	past	footy's tooth			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	glue back	past	the dentist	tooth	like nothing	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	is a	present		the real lesson		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

Wait a week, then take it to the dentist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 week	det
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 dentist	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dentist	det
10	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	infinitive		it		the dentist	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to dentist=Destination

Option 2

Throw the tooth away, it can never be saved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tooth	det
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Throw	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Throw	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saved	nsubj:pass
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 saved	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 saved	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 saved	aux:pass
10	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Throw	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	imperative	you not said here	the tooth				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
2	not save	can · passive		tooth					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hold the tooth by the top, keep it in milk, get to a dentist fast

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tooth	det
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 top	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keep	punct
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keep	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 milk	case
11	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 dentist	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dentist	det
16	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl
17	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	the tooth		by the top	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme by top=Location
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	tooth	milk		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in milk=Location
3	get	infinitive	you not said here			to a dentist result; fast property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to dentist=Result

Option 4

Wash the root with soap and dry it well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 root	det
3	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wash	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 soap	case
5	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wash	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dry	cc
7	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wash	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dry	obj
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 dry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	the root				with soap	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent root=Patient with soap=Instrument
2	dry	infinitive	you not said here	root				well property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

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