Test 19 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

kids say Ruby cracked her tooth cos she's a weirdo who eats ice, should i pass it on

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids, Ruby, weirdo, i · What happens: say, crack, be, eat, pass on · To what, where: tooth, ice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cracked	nsubj
4	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tooth	nmod:poss
6	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cracked	obj
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 weirdo	case
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 weirdo	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 weirdo	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 weirdo	det
11	weirdo	weirdo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cracked	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 eats	nsubj
13	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 weirdo	acl:relcl
14	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eats	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pass	punct
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 pass	aux
17	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 pass	nsubj
18	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pass	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	18 pass	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	crack	past	Ruby	Ruby's tooth		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tooth=Theme
3	is	present	Ruby		cos a weirdo	tree rules
4	eat	present	a weirdo	ice		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Patient
5	pass on	should	i	ice		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

Yes, and make fun of her new tooth too when she gets it fixed

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 make	cc
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 tooth	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tooth	nmod:poss
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tooth	amod
9	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl
10	too	too	ADV	_	4 make	advmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 gets	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gets	nsubj
13	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gets	obj
15	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	fun	of her new tooth	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
2	get	present	she	fun		tree rules
3	fix	participle	fun not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yes, everyone should know she is weird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 know	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 weird	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 weird	cop
8	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	should	everyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	she					weird property	tree rules

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

No, it's unkind; just learn that crunching ice can crack teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 unkind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unkind	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unkind	cop
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 learn	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 learn	advmod
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unkind	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 crack	mark
10	crunching	crunch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 ice	amod
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crack	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 crack	aux
13	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 learn	advcl
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 crack	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		unkind property	tree rules
2	learn	infinitive				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	crunch	gerund				vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
4	crack	can	crunching ice	teeth		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tooth=Theme

Option 4

Yes, but whisper it so she cannot hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 whisper	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 whisper	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 whisper	cc
4	whisper	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 whisper	obj
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 hear	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 hear	advmod
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 whisper	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	present		it					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	not hear	can	she						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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