Exam question 4 · Teeth and their care

Identify the principal cause of damage to the enamel of the teeth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, cause · To what, where: principal cause, damage

This is exam question 4 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	4 cause	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	amod
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 damage	case
6	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 enamel	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 enamel	det
9	enamel	enamel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 damage	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 teeth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 teeth	det
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 enamel	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal cause of damage to the enamel of the teeth					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	cause			damage to the enamel of the teeth					nom cause «event transitive»: of=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 right answer

Acid produced from sugar by germs in the mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Acid	acl
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 sugar	case
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 produced	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 germs	case
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 produced	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mouth	det
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 germs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	participle		Acid not said here		sugar		by germs in the mouth	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from sugar=Material

Option 2

The chewing of raw vegetables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chewing	det
2	chewing	chewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 vegetables	case
4	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vegetables	amod
5	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chewing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew			raw vegetables					nom chewing «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The drinking of plain water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drinking	det
2	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinking	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink			plain water					nom drinking «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Excessive brushing with fluoride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Excessive	Excessive	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	brushing	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Excessive	acl
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 fluoride	case
4	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brushing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	gerund	Excessive not said here					with fluoride	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fluoride=Instrument

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