Test 8 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth
A girl uses her teeth as scissors to open everything. What is the risk?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, risk · What happens: use, open, be · To what, where: teeth, everything
This is test 8 · ★ 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 girl uses her teeth as scissors to open everything.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 uses | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 scissors | case |
| 7 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 uses | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 open | mark |
| 9 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 uses | advcl |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 open | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uses | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | a girl | girl's teeth | as scissors | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tooth=Duration as scissors=Attribute | |||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | a girl not said here | everything | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location everything=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.
Sentence 2: What is the risk?
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 risk | det |
| 4 | risk | risk | 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 risk | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Her teeth could chip or crack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 chip | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 chip | aux |
| 4 | chip | chip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 crack | cc |
| 6 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 chip | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chip | could | Her teeth | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | crack | infinitive | Her teeth not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Her jaw would grow much too big
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 jaw | nmod:poss |
| 2 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 grow | aux |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 grow | advmod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 big | advmod |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grow | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | would | Her jaw | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Her teeth would become sharper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | sharper | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 become | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | would | Her teeth | sharp property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Her teeth would get much cleaner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 6 | cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | Her teeth | cleaner | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cleaner=Stimulus |
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