Exam question 3 · Sugar, teeth and the dentist

Ascertain the conduct recommended subsequent to brushing with fluoride toothpaste.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, conduct · What happens: ascertain, recommend, brush

This is exam question 3 of lesson 24 «Sugar, teeth and the dentist» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 conduct	det
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recommended	nsubj
4	recommended	recommend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ascertain	ccomp
5	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 recommended	xcomp
6	to	to	SCONJ	_	7 brushing	mark
7	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 subsequent	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 toothpaste	case
9	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 toothpaste	compound
10	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brushing	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	recommend	past	the conduct	subsequent property	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	brush	gerund	the conduct not said here	with fluoride toothpaste	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with toothpaste=Instrument

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 · ✓ the right answer

Expectoration without rinsing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Expectoration	expectoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	without	without	SCONJ	_	3 rinsing	mark
3	rinsing	rinse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Expectoration	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rinse	gerund	Expectoration not said here						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Swallowing of the residue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 residue	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 residue	det
4	residue	residue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swallowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	gerund						of the residue	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Thorough rinsing with water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thorough	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rinsing	amod
2	rinsing	rinsing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rinsing	nmod

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

Option 4

Immediate consumption of fruit juice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 consumption	amod
2	consumption	consumption	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 juice	case
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 juice	compound
5	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consumption	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume			fruit juice					nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient

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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