Exam question 2 · Teeth and their care

Identify the teeth whose function is the grinding and crushing of food.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, teeth · What happens: identify, be, crush · To what, where: grinding

This is exam question 2 of lesson 35 «Teeth and their care» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teeth	det
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grinding	nsubj
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 function	nmod:poss
5	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grinding	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grinding	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grinding	det
8	grinding	grinding	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 crushing	cc
10	crushing	crush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 grinding	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 food	case
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crushing	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	the teeth	the grinding		tree rules
3	crush	gerund	the teeth not said here		of food	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 milk teeth alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teeth	det
2	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teeth	compound
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 teeth	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The canines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 canines	det
2	canines	canine	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The molars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 molars	det
2	molars	molar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The incisors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 incisors	det
2	incisors	incisor	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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