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Test 5 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

A family drinks cola with every meal. What would a dentist probably say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family, dentist · What happens: drink, say · To what, where: cola · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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 family drinks cola with every meal.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinks	nsubj
3	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cola	cola	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinks	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 meal	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 meal	det
7	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinks	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	a family	cola				with every meal	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cola=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.

Sentence 2: What would a dentist probably say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dentist	det
4	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
5	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a dentist					probably property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Cola is fine if you drink it with a straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cola	cola	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 drink	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 drink	nsubj
6	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drink	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 straw	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 straw	det
10	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cola					fine property	tree rules
2	drink a condition, not said to happen	present	you	Cola				with a straw	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Drink juice instead, it has no sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drink	obj
3	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Drink	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Drink	conj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 sugar	det
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	imperative	you not said here	juice				instead property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Patient
2	have	present	juice	no sugar					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Choose water or milk most of the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Choose	obj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 milk	cc
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	conj
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Choose	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	imperative	you not said here	water or milk					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent water=Beneficiary most=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Cola makes teeth stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cola	cola	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Cola	teeth				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material tooth=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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