Test 7 · Teeth and their care
A 7-year-old has a wobbly front tooth. What is most likely happening?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: year old · What happens: have, be, happen · To what, where: wobbly front tooth
This is test 7 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 7-year-old has a wobbly front tooth.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 old | det |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 year | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 7 | punct |
| 4 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 year | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tooth | det |
| 9 | wobbly | wobbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tooth | amod |
| 10 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tooth | amod |
| 11 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a year old | a wobbly front tooth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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: What is most likely happening?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 likely | cop |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 likely | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
She will have no teeth there forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 teeth | det |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 have | advmod |
| 7 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | She | no teeth | there | forever property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
Option 2
It means her bones are breaking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bones | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 breaking | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 breaking | aux |
| 6 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | break | present · progressive | her bones | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A milk tooth is being replaced by an adult tooth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tooth | det |
| 2 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tooth | compound |
| 3 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replaced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replaced | aux:pass |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 replaced | aux:pass |
| 6 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 tooth | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tooth | det |
| 9 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tooth | compound |
| 10 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replaced | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | replace | present · passive | a adult tooth | a milk tooth | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
Option 4
The tooth has turned into a molar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tooth | det |
| 2 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | aux |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 molar | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 molar | det |
| 7 | molar | molar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · perfect | the tooth | a molar | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into molar=Trajectory |
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