Test 1 · ★ · Sugar, teeth and the dentist

"brushed my teeth right after my coke, so it's fine" — any problem?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: brush, be · To what, where: teeth

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 24 «Sugar, teeth and the dentist» of the medicine 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 brushed	punct
2	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 teeth	nmod:poss
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brushed	obj
5	right	right	ADV	_	8 coke	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 coke	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 coke	nmod:poss
8	coke	coke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brushed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fine	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 fine	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fine	expl
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fine	cop
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brushed	parataxis
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 fine	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 problem	punct
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 problem	det
17	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brushed	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 brushed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush in a quote	past		my teeth			after my coke		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
2	is in a quote	present						fine property	tree rules

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

Only rinsing helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 rinsing	advmod
2	rinsing	rinsing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	nsubj
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	rinsing						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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

Brushing straight after acid can wear enamel, wait an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wear	csubj
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	1 Brushing	advmod
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 acid	case
4	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brushing	obl
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wear	aux
6	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	enamel	enamel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wear	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wait	punct
9	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wear	conj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	brush	gerund			after acid	straight property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wear	can	Brushing	enamel			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent enamel=Source
3	wait	infinitive	Brushing not said here		hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Coke has no acid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coke	coke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 acid	det
4	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Coke	no acid					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acid=Patient

Option 4

No, brushing straight after is best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 brushing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 best	csubj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 after	advmod
5	after	after	ADV	_	3 brushing	advmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 best	cop
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	gerund						after property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	brushing					good 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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