Test 2 · ★ · Sugar, teeth and the dentist
Kid A eats a bag of sweets after lunch. Kid B eats the same bag one by one all afternoon. Whose teeth suffer more?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, A, Kid B, teeth · What happens: kid, eat, suffer · To what, where: bag, same bag, more
This is test 2 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Kid A eats a bag of sweets after lunch.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kid | kid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 eats | nsubj |
| 3 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Kid | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bag | det |
| 5 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eats | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sweets | case |
| 7 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bag | nmod |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 lunch | case |
| 9 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sweets | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kid | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat | present | A | a bag of sweets after lunch | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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.
Sentence 2: Kid B eats the same bag one by one all afternoon.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 B | compound |
| 2 | B | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eats | nsubj |
| 3 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bag | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bag | amod |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eats | obj |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 bag | flat |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 afternoon | det |
| 11 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eats | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Kid B | the same bag | afternoon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |
Sentence 3: Whose teeth suffer more?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 2 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 suffer | nsubj |
| 3 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 suffer | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | present | teeth | more | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Kid B, many acid attacks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | B | B | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kid | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 attacks | punct |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 attacks | amod |
| 5 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attacks | nsubj |
| 6 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kid | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | acid | tree rules |
Option 2
Neither, sweets don't hurt teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | present · do-support | sweets | teeth | neither property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient |
Option 3
Both the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 3 same | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 same | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Kid A, more sugar at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kid | kid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sugar | det |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sugar | punct |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 sugar | amod |
| 5 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kid | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Kid | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kid | imperative | you not said here | a more sugar | tree rules |
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