Test 9 · ★ · Sugar, teeth and the dentist
Mo, 7, has a gap where a tooth fell out. What's growing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mo, tooth · What happens: have, fall out, grow · To what, where: gap
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Mo, 7, has a gap where a tooth fell out.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mo | Mo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 7 | punct |
| 3 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Mo | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mo | punct |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gap | det |
| 7 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 fell | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tooth | det |
| 10 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gap | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 fell | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Mo | a gap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fall out | past | a tooth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 growing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 growing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 growing | aux |
| 3 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 growing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present · progressive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Another baby tooth, just like the old one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 tooth | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tooth | compound |
| 3 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 one | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tooth | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nothing, the gap will stay there for good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gap | det |
| 4 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | aux |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stay | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 good | case |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | future | Nothing | there | for good | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
An adult tooth that was underneath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tooth | det |
| 2 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tooth | compound |
| 3 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tooth | acl:relcl |
| 6 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 5 was | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A wisdom tooth, the very first of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tooth | det |
| 2 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tooth | compound |
| 3 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tooth | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 first | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 first | advmod |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 tooth | advmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tooth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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