Test 7 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

What would happen if you pressed a clean tissue on a bleeding baby tooth gap for a few minutes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, press · To what, where: clean tissue, tooth gap

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 pressed	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pressed	nsubj
6	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tissue	det
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tissue	amod
9	tissue	tissue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pressed	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	15 gap	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 gap	det
12	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tooth	compound
13	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tooth	compound
14	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gap	compound
15	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pressed	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 minutes	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 minutes	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 minutes	amod
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gap	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	press a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a clean tissue		a tooth gap for a few minutes			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tissue=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 · ← Mova's choice

A new tooth would grow at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tooth	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tooth	amod
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	a new tooth						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The small bleeding would usually stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bleeding	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bleeding	amod
3	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	6 stop	advmod
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the small bleeding					usually property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

The gap would become infected from the tissue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gap	det
2	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	infected	infect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 become	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 tissue	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tissue	det
8	tissue	tissue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 infected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the gap						tree rules
2	infect	participle	the gap not said here			the tissue			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The bleeding would get worse and worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bleeding	det
2	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 worse	cc
7	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 worse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the bleeding					bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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