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Test 3 · ★ · Sugar, teeth and the dentist

"Baby teeth fall out anyway, why fill 'em?" Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Baby teeth · What happens: fall out, fill · To what, where: 'em

This is test 3 · ★ 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: "Baby teeth fall out anyway, why fill 'em?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct
2	Baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teeth	compound
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
4	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 fall	compound:prt
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fill	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 fill	advmod
9	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fall	conj
10	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fill	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out in a quote	present	Baby teeth					anyway property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fill in a quote	infinitive	Baby teeth not said here	'em = they					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1

No point, leave them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 point	det
2	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 point	punct
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	infinitive	no point	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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

Decay hurts and baby teeth hold space for adult ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decay	decay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hold	cc
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teeth	compound
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hold	nsubj
6	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hurts	conj
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 ones	case
9	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	Decay						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	hold	present	baby teeth	space				for adult ones	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme

Option 3

Baby teeth turn into adult ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teeth	compound
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 ones	case
5	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Baby teeth					into adult ones	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory

Option 4

So the tooth fairy pays more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 pays	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fairy	det
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fairy	compound
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pays	nsubj
5	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 pays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	the tooth fairy						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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