Test 12 · Teeth and their care

Ella reckons brushing once a week is fine. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella, brushing · What happens: reckon, brush, be

This is test 12 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	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fine	csubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 brushing	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 once	obl:unmarked
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckons	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fine	punct
10	right	right	ADV	_	2 reckons	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Ella	right property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	brush	gerund		once property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	brushing	fine property	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

Yes, if you use lots of toothpaste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 use	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 toothpaste	case
8	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	you	lots of toothpaste					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, brush twice a day for about two minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 brush	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 brush	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brush	obl:unmarked
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 minutes	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 two	advmod
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 minutes	nummod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brush	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	imperative	you not said here				day; minute	twice property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, once a week is enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 enough	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 enough	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 week	det
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 enough	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 enough	cop
7	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

No, brush once a month but for much longer each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 brush	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 brush	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 month	det
6	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brush	obl:unmarked
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 longer	cc
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 longer	case
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 brush	advmod
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brush	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	imperative	you not said here				month; time	long, once property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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