Test 4 · ★ · Sugar, teeth and the dentist
Cartoon dentist pulls teeth with pliers while the kid screams. What's real?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cartoon dentist, kid · What happens: pull, scream, be · To what, where: teeth
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Cartoon dentist pulls teeth with pliers while the kid screams.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dentist | compound |
| 2 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulls | nsubj |
| 3 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pulls | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 pliers | case |
| 6 | pliers | plier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pulls | obl |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 screams | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kid | det |
| 9 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 screams | nsubj |
| 10 | screams | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulls | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | present | Cartoon dentist | teeth | with pliers | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | present | the kid | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: What's real?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 real | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 real | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Kids must stay silent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | aux |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stay | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | must | Kids | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Dentists numb the area and agree a stop signal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dentists | dentist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 numb | nsubj |
| 2 | numb | numb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 area | det |
| 4 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 numb | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 agree | cc |
| 6 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 numb | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 signal | det |
| 8 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 signal | compound |
| 9 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agree | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | numb | present | Dentists | the area | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus area=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | infinitive | Dentists not said here | a stop signal | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent signal=Topic |
Option 3
Dentists always pull teeth out, even healthy ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dentists | dentist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pull | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 pull | advmod |
| 3 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pull | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 pull | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ones | punct |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 ones | advmod |
| 8 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pull | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | present | Dentists | teeth | healthy ones obl; always, out property | tree rules |
Option 4
Dentists never numb anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dentists | dentist | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 numb | advmod |
| 3 | numb | numb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 anything | amod |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Dentists | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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