Test 7 · ★ · Sugar, teeth and the dentist
"Braces are just for looks" — fair?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Braces · What happens: be
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | _ | 6 looks | punct |
| 2 | Braces | brace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 looks | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 looks | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 looks | case |
| 6 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 looks | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fair | punct |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looks | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Braces | for looks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Braces not said here | 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 · ← Mova's choice
No, they're really there to make teeth grow longer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 there | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 there | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 there | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 there | advcl |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 make | xcomp |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 grow | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | they | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | they not said here | teeth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | teeth not said here | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, they do nothing else
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 nothing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | they | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, they can also help the bite and cleaning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 help | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 help | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | aux |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 help | advmod |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bite | det |
| 8 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cleaning | cc |
| 10 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bite | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | they | the bite and cleaning | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Beneficiary |
Option 4
Yes, only for looks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 looks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 looks | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 looks | case |
| 5 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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