Test 9 · ★ · The dentist and washing your hands

What does a sealant do to the back teeth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sealant · What happens: do

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sealant	det
4	sealant	sealant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 teeth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 teeth	det
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 teeth	compound
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	a sealant					to the back teeth	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Pulls them out painlessly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pulls	pull	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pulls	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Pulls	compound:prt
4	painlessly	painlessly	ADV	_	1 Pulls	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Makes them grow bigger and stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Makes	obj
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Makes	xcomp
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stronger	cc
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bigger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		them = they					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	them = they not said here					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Turns them white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turns	obj
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Turns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present		them = they				white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Coats them to help stop decay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Coats	nmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 help	mark
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Coats	acl
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
6	decay	decay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	stop	infinitive		decay					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality decay=Eventuality

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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