Test 18 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

my brother swears gum u swallow stays in ur belly 7 years, true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, u swallow · What happens: swear, stay · To what, where: gum, belly

This is test 18 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swears	nsubj
3	swears	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swears	obj
5	u	u	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swallow	amod
6	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stays	nsubj
7	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swears	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 belly	case
9	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 belly	nmod:poss
10	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stays	obl
11	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stays	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swears	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 swears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	present	my brother	gum					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent gum=Eventuality
2	stay	present	u swallow			ur's belly	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in belly=Location

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

True, but only the minty kind of gum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 kind	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 kind	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	minty	minty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kind	amod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 True	acl:relcl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 gum	case
9	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

True, it sticks there for exactly seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sticks	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sticks	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sticks	nsubj
4	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sticks	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 seven	advmod
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sticks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present	it			there	year		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

False, it melts in your mouth at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 melts	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 melts	nsubj
4	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melts	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 melts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	it			your mouth			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Just a myth; swallowed gum passes through in a few days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 myth	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 myth	det
3	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 passes	punct
5	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gum	amod
6	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passes	nsubj
7	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 myth	parataxis
8	through	through	ADP	_	7 passes	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 days	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 days	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	participle							vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pass through	present	swallowed gum				day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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