Test 8 · Teeth and their care

What protects the inside of a tooth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: protect · To what, where: inside

This is test 8 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	2 protects	nsubj
2	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 inside	det
4	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protects	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tooth	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tooth	det
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inside	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 protects	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present		the inside of a tooth					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inside=Beneficiary

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

A coat of saliva only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coat	det
2	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 saliva	case
4	saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coat	nmod
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 saliva	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A thin layer of soft skin over the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 layer	det
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 layer	amod
3	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 skin	case
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 skin	amod
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 layer	nmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skin	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A hard layer of enamel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 layer	det
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 layer	amod
3	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 enamel	case
5	enamel	enamel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 layer	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A thin layer of hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 layer	det
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 layer	amod
3	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 hair	case
5	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 layer	nmod

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.

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