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title: Why do wet wipes cause problems in pipes? — Baths, water at home and doors · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do wet wipes cause problems in pipes? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 109 «Baths, water at home and doors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Baths, water at home and doors

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Why do wet wipes cause problems in pipes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** wet wipes · **What happens:** cause · **To what, where:** problems, pipes

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 109 «Baths, water at home and doors» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/109-baths-water-and-doors/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors:t4:1
# text = Why do wet wipes cause problems in pipes?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wipes	wipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | wet wipes | problems |  | pipes |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition problem=Patient |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They do not break up and they block the pipes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors:t4:o1:1
# text = They do not break up and they block the pipes
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	block	block	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **break up** | present · do-support | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **block** | present | they | the pipes |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer pipe=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They turn into toilet paper once they are in water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors:t4:o2:1
# text = They turn into toilet paper once they are in water
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | They |  |  | toilet paper |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into paper=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | they |  |  | water |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They make pipes too slippery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors:t4:o3:1
# text = They make pipes too slippery
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | They | pipes |  |  |  | slippery *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pipe=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They make the water too soapy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors:t4:o4:1
# text = They make the water too soapy
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	soapy	soapy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | They | the water |  |  |  | soapy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product |

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