Test 2 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

Which is true about chewing gum?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, chew · To what, where: gum

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 chewing	mark
5	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 true	advcl
6	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chewing	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	chew	gerund		gum					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gum=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

Gum is healthy to swallow every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 healthy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 healthy	cop
3	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 swallow	mark
5	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 healthy	xcomp
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swallow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Gum					healthy property	tree rules
2	swallow	to-infinitive	Gum not said here				day		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Gum is digested like bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 digested	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 digested	aux:pass
3	digested	digest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 bread	case
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 digested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	digest	present · passive		Gum				like bread	tree rules

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

Swallowed gum passes through, though it is not digested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gum	amod
2	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passes	nsubj
3	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADV	_	3 passes	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 digested	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 digested	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 digested	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 digested	aux:pass
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 digested	advmod
10	digested	digest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 passes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swallow	participle				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pass through	present	Swallowed gum		through property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not digest	present · passive		gum		tree rules

Option 4

Swallowed gum stays inside the stomach for seven whole years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gum	amod
2	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stays	nsubj
3	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 stomach	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stomach	det
6	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stays	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 years	amod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stays	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	stay	present	Swallowed gum			the stomach	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside stomach=Location

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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