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title: Which tool is safe for cleaning between your teeth? — Teeth, nails, baths and toilets · tree and pragmatics
description: Which tool is safe for cleaning between your teeth? Test 3 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Teeth, nails, baths and toilets

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Which tool is safe for cleaning between your teeth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tool · **What happens:** be, clean

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t3:1
# text = Which tool is safe for cleaning between your teeth?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	tool	tool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which tool |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **clean** | gerund | which tool *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between your teeth | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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Floss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t3:o1:1
# text = Floss
1	Floss	floss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A needle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t3:o2:1
# text = A needle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A toothpick-sharp knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t3:o3:1
# text = A toothpick-sharp knife
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	toothpick	toothpick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A paper clip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t3:o4:1
# text = A paper clip
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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