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Test 4 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

A boy uses a sharp pin to get popcorn out of his teeth. What is the danger?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, danger · What happens: use, get, be · To what, where: sharp pin, popcorn, teeth

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy uses a sharp pin to get popcorn out of his teeth.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pin	det
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pin	amod
6	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 uses	advcl
9	popcorn	popcorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 get	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	a boy	a sharp pin					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Patient
2	get	to-infinitive	a boy not said here	popcorn		boy's teeth			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer popcorn=Stimulus

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.

Sentence 2: What is the danger?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 danger	det
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the danger						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nothing, a pin is the best tool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 tool	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pin	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pin	det
4	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tool	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tool	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 tool	amod
8	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing	the best tool					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The pin would make his teeth loose for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pin	det
2	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 teeth	nmod:poss
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
7	loose	loose	ADV	_	4 make	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ever	case
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the pin	his teeth				loose property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent tooth=Product for ever=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He could cut his gums or chip a tooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux
3	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gums	nmod:poss
5	gums	gum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 chip	cc
7	chip	chip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cut	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tooth	det
9	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	could	He	his gums					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gum=Product
2	chip	infinitive	He not said here	a tooth					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Option 4

The pin could make the popcorn stick harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pin	det
2	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stick	det
6	popcorn	popcorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stick	compound
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could	the pin	the popcorn stick				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material stick=Product

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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