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Test 12 · Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"

A cousin from Texas: "Dentists recommend it, y'all, so it's the only toothpaste worth buyin'." What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dentists, cousin · What happens: recommend, be · To what, where: cousin, worth buyin

This is test 12 of lesson 176 «Adverts and "8 out of 10 cats"» of the world 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: A cousin from Texas: "Dentists recommend it, y'all, so it's the only toothpaste worth buyin'."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cousin	det
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cousin	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 recommend	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 recommend	punct
7	Dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 recommend	nsubj
8	recommend	recommend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cousin	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 recommend	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 y'all	punct
11	y'all	y'all	ADV	_	8 recommend	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 buyin	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	20 buyin	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 buyin	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 buyin	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 toothpaste	det
17	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 toothpaste	amod
18	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 buyin	nsubj
19	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 buyin	amod
20	buyin	buyin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recommend	ccomp
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 buyin	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cousin	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 cousin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recommend in a quote	present	Dentists	cousin				y'all property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	cousin	worth buyin					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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Dentists are paid by every toothpaste maker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 maker	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 maker	det
6	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maker	compound
7	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive	every toothpaste maker	Dentists					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Most fluoride toothpastes work well; one brand isn't special

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 toothpastes	amod
2	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 toothpastes	compound
3	toothpastes	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 work	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 brand	nummod
8	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 special	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 special	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 special	advmod
11	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 work	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Most fluoride toothpastes					well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	one brand					special property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Toothpaste doesn't work unless a dentist names it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	8 names	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dentist	det
7	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 names	nsubj
8	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 names	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	present · do-support	Toothpaste						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	name a condition, not said to happen	present	a dentist	Toothpaste					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Only that one brand protects teeth from holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 brand	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 brand	det
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brand	nummod
4	brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 protects	nsubj
5	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 protects	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 holes	case
8	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 protects	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present	that one brand	teeth				from holes	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary from hole=Theme

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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