Test 3 · Teeth and their care

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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

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

Every lost tooth grows back after a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 tooth	det
2	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tooth	amod
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 grows	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow back	present	every lost tooth				year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Adult teeth must last for life, because they do not grow back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 teeth	amod
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 last	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 last	aux
4	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 last	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grow	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 grow	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grow	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 grow	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 grow	advmod
12	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 last	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	must	Adult teeth					for life	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	not grow back	present · do-support	teeth = tooth						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Enamel can feel pain like skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enamel	enamel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 skin	case
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	can	Enamel	pain				like skin	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme

Option 4

Milk teeth never need brushing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teeth	compound
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	brushing	brushing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	Milk teeth	brushing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot brushing=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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