Test 14 · ★ · The dentist and washing your hands

teeth dont hurt so why go to the dentist

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: teeth · What happens: hurt, go · To what, where: dentist

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 75 «The dentist and washing your hands» 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	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurt	nsubj
2	dont	dont	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 teeth	flat
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hurt	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 dentist	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dentist	det
9	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past	teeth						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	infinitive	teeth not said here			the dentist			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dentist=Initial_Location

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

You only go if a tooth falls out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 falls	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tooth	det
6	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 falls	nsubj
7	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 go	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 falls	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	You						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall out a condition, not said to happen	present	a tooth						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Small holes don't hurt yet, the dentist finds them before they grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 holes	amod
2	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurt	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hurt	advmod
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 hurt	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 finds	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dentist	det
9	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finds	nsubj
10	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 finds	obj
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 grow	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grow	nsubj
14	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 finds	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not hurt	present · do-support	Small holes		yet	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	find	present	the dentist	holes = hole		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	grow	present	holes = hole			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Check-ups make teeth weaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ups	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ups	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	infinitive							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Check ups	teeth				weak property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tooth=Product

Option 4

The dentist only helps when it hurts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dentist	det
2	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helps	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 helps	advmod
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 hurts	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hurts	nsubj
7	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 helps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	the dentist						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	present	dentist						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

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