Test 3 · ★ · The dentist and washing your hands

Why do dentists fix small holes early?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dentists · What happens: fix · To what, where: small holes

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fix	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fix	aux
3	dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fix	nsubj
4	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 holes	amod
6	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fix	obj
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fix	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present · do-support	dentists	small holes				early property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hole=Patient

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

Fillings only work on big holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fillings	filling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 work	advmod
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 holes	case
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 holes	amod
6	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Fillings					on big holes	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hole=Theme

Option 2

Dentists like to be busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 busy	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 busy	cop
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 like	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Dentists						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dentists not said here					busy property	tree rules

Option 3

Small holes heal by themselves if they are left

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	3 heal	nsubj
3	heal	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 themselves	case
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 heal	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 left	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 left	aux:pass
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heal	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	present	Small holes					by holes = hole	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		holes = hole					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A small hole grows bigger and more painful if left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hole	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hole	amod
3	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grows	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 painful	cc
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 painful	advmod
8	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bigger	conj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 left	mark
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 painful	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a small hole					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	participle	a small hole not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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