Test 10 · Teeth and their care

sweets dont even touch the tooth inside so how do they rot it

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sweets · What happens: touch, rot · To what, where: tooth

This is test 10 of lesson 35 «Teeth and their care» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 touch	nsubj
2	dont	dont	X	Foreign=Yes	1 sweets	conj
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 touch	advmod
4	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tooth	det
6	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touch	obj
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 touch	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 rot	advmod
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 rot	advmod
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 rot	aux
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rot	nsubj
12	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 touch	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	infinitive	sweets	the tooth				inside property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tooth=Co-Theme
2	rot	present · do-support	sweets = sweet	tooth					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 · ✓ the right answer

Germs turn the sugar into acid that eats the enamel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sugar	det
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 acid	case
6	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 eats	nsubj
8	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 acid	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 enamel	det
10	enamel	enamel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Germs	the sugar		acid			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme into acid=Trajectory
2	eat	present	acid	the enamel					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enamel=Patient

Option 2

Sugar freezes the teeth and cracks them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 freezes	nsubj
2	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teeth	det
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 freezes	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cracks	cc
6	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 freezes	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cracks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	Sugar	the teeth					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tooth=Result
2	crack	present	Sugar not said here	teeth = tooth					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sweets make the teeth soft and wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teeth	det
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wet	cc
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soft	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Sweets	the teeth				soft property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tooth=Product

Option 4

Sugar is sharp and scratches the teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sharp	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sharp	cop
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 scratches	cc
5	scratches	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sharp	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teeth	det
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scratches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sugar					sharp property	tree rules
2	scratch	present	Sugar not said here	the teeth					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme

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