Test 4 · Teeth and their care
A girl chews a nut into a paste. Which teeth did the grinding?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, teeth · What happens: chew, do · To what, where: nut, paste, grinding
This is test 4 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
Sentence 1: A girl chews a nut into a paste.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chews | nsubj |
| 3 | chews | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 nut | det |
| 5 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chews | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 paste | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 paste | det |
| 8 | paste | paste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chews | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chews | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | present | a girl | a nut | a paste | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=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.
Sentence 2: Which teeth did the grinding?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 teeth | det |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grinding | det |
| 5 | grinding | grinding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which teeth | the grinding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grinding=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The milk gums
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gums | det |
| 2 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gums | compound |
| 3 | gums | gum | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ 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 3
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 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/35-teeth-and-care/t4/