Test 6 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

Why would a dentist tell you not to snap floss down hard?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dentist, you · What happens: tell, not snap · To what, where: floss · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 tell	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dentist	det
4	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 snap	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 snap	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 snap	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 snap	mark
9	snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	floss	floss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snap	obj
11	down	down	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 snap	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 snap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	a dentist						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not snap	to-infinitive	you	floss				hard property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location floss=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

It makes the teeth loose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teeth	det
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It hurts and can damage the gums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 damage	cc
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 damage	aux
5	damage	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hurts	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gums	det
7	gums	gum	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 damage	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	It						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	damage	can		the gums					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gum=Patient

Option 3

It breaks the floss much too quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 breaks	nsubj
2	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floss	det
4	floss	floss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaks	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	2 breaks	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 quickly	advmod
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 breaks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	It	the floss				quickly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer floss=Patient

Option 4

It puts germs on the floss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 puts	nsubj
2	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 puts	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 floss	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floss	det
6	floss	floss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	It	germs		the floss			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme on floss=Destination

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