Test 5 · Teeth and their care

What would help teeth most after eating sweets?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: help, eat · To what, where: teeth, sweets

This is test 5 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	obj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 help	advmod
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 eating	mark
7	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 help	advcl
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eating	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would		teeth					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary
2	eat	gerund		sweets					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=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

Biting on ice to harden them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 ice	case
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Biting	obl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 harden	mark
5	harden	harden	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Biting	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 harden	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	gerund				ice			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on ice=Location
2	harden	to-infinitive		them = they					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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

Brushing them with fluoride toothpaste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Brushing	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 toothpaste	case
4	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toothpaste	compound
5	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brushing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brush	gerund		them = they				with fluoride toothpaste	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with toothpaste=Theme

Option 3

Eating more sweets to cover the old sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sweets	amod
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eating	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cover	mark
5	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Eating	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sugar	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sugar	amod
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cover	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		more sweets					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient
2	cover	to-infinitive		the old sugar					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sugar=Destination

Option 4

Drinking a sweet juice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 juice	det
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 juice	amod
4	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		a sweet juice					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Patient

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