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title: Which helps save water and energy at home? — Teeth, nails, baths and toilets · tree and pragmatics
description: Which helps save water and energy at home? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Teeth, nails, baths and toilets

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Which helps save water and energy at home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** help, save · **To what, where:** water, home

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t6:1
# text = Which helps save water and energy at home?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive |  | water and energy |  | home |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent water=Theme at home=Asset |

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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 {#o1}

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Long showers to get yourself really clean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t6:o1:1
# text = Long showers to get yourself really clean
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Leaving the tap running while you brush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t6:o2:1
# text = Leaving the tap running while you brush
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	brush	brush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund |  | the tap |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tap=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **brush** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Short showers of about five minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t6:o3:1
# text = Short showers of about five minutes
1	Short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Filling the bath to the top every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets:t6:o4:1
# text = Filling the bath to the top every day
1	Filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | gerund |  | the bath |  |  | day | to the top | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bath=Patient |

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