Test 9 · Teeth and their care

why do my back teeth look all flat n bumpy

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: back teeth · What happens: do, look

This is test 9 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 look	advcl
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teeth	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teeth	compound
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 flat	advmod
8	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp
9	n	n	ADP	_	10 bumpy	case
10	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	my back teeth not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	present	my back teeth					n bumpy; flat property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

They are incisors used for cutting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 incisors	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 incisors	cop
3	incisors	incisor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 incisors	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 cutting	case
6	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	incisors					tree rules
2	use	participle		incisors not said here				for cutting	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They are molars, made to grind and crush food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 molars	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 molars	cop
3	molars	molar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 molars	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grind	mark
7	grind	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 crush	cc
9	crush	crush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 grind	conj
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crush	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	They	molars	tree rules
2	make	participle		molars not said here	tree rules
3	grind	to-infinitive	molars not said here		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	crush	infinitive	molars not said here	food	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 3

They are canines, worn flat by tearing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 canines	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 canines	cop
3	canines	canine	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 worn	punct
5	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 canines	acl
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 worn	xcomp
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 tearing	mark
8	tearing	tear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 worn	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	canines		tree rules
2	wear	participle		canines not said here	flat property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	tear	gerund				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They are milk teeth that never grew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 teeth	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 teeth	cop
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teeth	compound
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 grew	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 grew	advmod
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 teeth	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	milk teeth					tree rules
2	not grow	past	milk teeth						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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