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Test 4 · ★ · The dentist and washing your hands

A girl with a brace wants caramel toffee. What would a dentist say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, dentist · What happens: want, say · To what, where: caramel toffee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl with a brace wants caramel toffee.

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	6 wants	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 brace	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brace	det
5	brace	brace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	caramel	caramel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 toffee	compound
8	toffee	toffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wants	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a girl with a brace	caramel toffee					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot toffee=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 would a dentist say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dentist	det
4	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a dentist						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Avoid it, it sticks to the brace and can break the wires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Avoid	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sticks	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sticks	nsubj
5	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Avoid	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 brace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brace	det
8	brace	brace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sticks	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 break	cc
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 break	aux
11	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sticks	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wires	det
13	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	imperative	you not said here	it					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location
2	stick	present	it					to the brace	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to brace=Co-Patient
3	break	can		the wires					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wire=Patient

Option 2

Toffee helps straighten the teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toffee	Toffee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straighten	straighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teeth	det
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 straighten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Toffee						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	straighten	infinitive	Toffee not said here	the teeth					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Option 3

Eat it only in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Eat	obj
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 morning	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	it			morning		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Eat as much as you like, because braces are strong enough for anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Eat	obj
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 like	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
6	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 much	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 strong	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 strong	mark
9	braces	brace	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 strong	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 strong	cop
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Eat	parataxis
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	11 strong	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 anything	case
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 strong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	much					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
2	like	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is	present	braces					for anything; enough, strong property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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