Test 9 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

What does it mean if a tooth hurts with sweet foods?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, tooth · What happens: mean, hurt

This is test 9 · ★ 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	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 hurts	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tooth	det
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurts	nsubj
8	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 foods	case
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 foods	amod
11	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hurts	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	it						tree rules
2	hurt a condition, not said to happen	present	a tooth					with sweet foods	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Sweet foods always hurt teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 foods	amod
2	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurt	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 hurt	advmod
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past	Sweet foods	teeth				always property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient

Option 2

The tooth is just very healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tooth	det
2	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 healthy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 healthy	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 healthy	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 healthy	advmod
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It may have a hole that needs a dentist

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	3 have	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 needs	nsubj
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hole	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dentist	det
9	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	may	It	a hole					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
2	need	present	a hole	a dentist					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dentist=Theme

Option 4

It is growing a brand new root underneath

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	3 growing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 growing	aux
3	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 root	det
5	brand	brand	ADV	_	6 new	advmod
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 root	amod
7	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 growing	obj
8	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	3 growing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · progressive	It	a new root				underneath property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location root=Theme

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