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description: A girl in Arizona has popcorn stuck in her teeth and reaches for a safety pin. What should she do instead? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 289 «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food

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A girl in Arizona has popcorn stuck in her teeth and reaches for a safety pin. What should she do instead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** have, stick, reach, do · **To what, where:** popcorn, teeth

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 289 «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» 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/289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in Arizona has popcorn stuck in her teeth and reaches for a safety pin.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food:t1:1
# text = A girl in Arizona has popcorn stuck in her teeth and reaches for a safety pin.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	popcorn	popcorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a girl in Arizona | popcorn |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent popcorn=Patient |
| 2 | **stick** | participle |  | popcorn *not said here* |  | girl's teeth |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tooth=Destination |
| 3 | **reach** | present | a girl in Arizona *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a safety pin | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should she do instead?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food:t1:2
# text = What should she do instead?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | girl |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Use a kitchen knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food:t1:o1:1
# text = Use a kitchen knife
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | a kitchen knife |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Use a toothpick made of metal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food:t1:o2:1
# text = Use a toothpick made of metal
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	toothpick	toothpick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | a toothpick |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothpick=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a toothpick *not said here* |  |  |  | of metal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ignore it for a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food:t1:o3:1
# text = Ignore it for a week
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  | week |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Use dental floss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food:t1:o4:1
# text = Use dental floss
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	dental	dental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	floss	floss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | dental floss |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floss=Patient |

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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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