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title: too tired to brush teeth tonight, it's fine once yeah — Teeth, nails, baths and toilets · tree and pragmatics
description: too tired to brush teeth tonight, it's fine once yeah Test 14 · ★ of lesson 208 «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» 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 wrong.
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# Test 14 · ★ · Teeth, nails, baths and toilets

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too tired to brush teeth tonight, it's fine once yeah

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** brush, be · **To what, where:** teeth

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 208 «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» 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/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t14:1
# text = too tired to brush teeth tonight, it's fine once yeah
1	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	brush	brush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | to-infinitive |  | teeth |  |  | tonight |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine, once *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Only brush in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t14:o1:1
# text = Only brush in the morning
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	brush	brush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Rinse with juice instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t14:o2:1
# text = Rinse with juice instead
1	Rinse	rinse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rinse** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with juice; instead *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Brush anyway, sugar on teeth all night causes decay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t14:o3:1
# text = Brush anyway, sugar on teeth all night causes decay
1	Brush	brush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	decay	decay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | imperative | you *not said here* | sugar on teeth |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cause** | present | all night | decay |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition decay=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, skipping is fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t14:o4:1
# text = Yes, skipping is fine
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	skipping	skipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | skipping |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

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**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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