Test 6 · ★ · Sugar, teeth and the dentist

What would happen if you never brushed for a year?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, not brush

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 brushed	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 brushed	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 brushed	advmod
7	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brushed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not brush a condition, not said to happen	past	you				year		vn floss-41.2.1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Plaque would build up and decay and gum disease would likely follow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plaque	plaque	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 build	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 build	aux
3	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 build	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 decay	cc
6	decay	decay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 build	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 follow	cc
8	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disease	compound
9	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 follow	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 follow	aux
11	likely	likely	ADV	_	12 follow	advmod
12	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 build	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	build up	would	Plaque		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	decay	infinitive	Plaque not said here		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	follow	would	gum disease	likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, saliva does it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 saliva	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 does	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Nothing saliva	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

Teeth would clean themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 clean	aux
3	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	would	Teeth	Teeth = tooth					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

Option 4

Teeth would turn stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	Teeth					strong property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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