Test 6 · Teeth and their care

Why do dentists say "fewer sugary snacks"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dentists · What happens: say · To what, where: fewer sugary snacks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	dentists	dentist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 snacks	punct
6	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 snacks	amod
7	sugary	sugary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snacks	amod
8	snacks	snack	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 snacks	punct
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	dentists	fewer sugary snacks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent snack=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Germs make acid from sugar, and every snack feeds them again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 sugar	case
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feeds	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feeds	cc
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 snack	det
9	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feeds	nsubj
10	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 feeds	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 feeds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Germs	acid		sugar			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset acid=Product from sugar=Material
2	feed	present	every snack	Germs = germ			again		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 2

Snacks stop saliva for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snacks	snack	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 week	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Snacks	saliva			week		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality saliva=Eventuality

Option 3

Sugar turns enamel into bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	enamel	enamel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 bone	case
5	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Sugar	enamel		bone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent enamel=Theme into bone=Trajectory

Option 4

Sugar makes teeth grow too big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Sugar	teeth					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	teeth not said here					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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