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title: Why is it better to put on underwear before your trousers? — Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, slee… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is it better to put on underwear before your trousers? Test 7 · ★ 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 each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food

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Why is it better to put on underwear before your trousers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** be, put · **To what, where:** underwear

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food:t7:1
# text = Why is it better to put on underwear before your trousers?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	underwear	underwear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | underwear | before your trousers |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on underwear=Destination |

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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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Clothes go on in order so they fit right and it is quicker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food:t7:o1:1
# text = Clothes go on in order so they fit right and it is quicker
1	Clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Clothes |  |  | order |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on order=Location |
| 2 | **fit** | present | Clothes |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | order |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Underwear is warmer on the outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food:t7:o2:1
# text = Underwear is warmer on the outside
1	Underwear	underwear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Underwear |  |  | the outside |  | warm *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It does not matter at all which piece of clothing goes first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food:t7:o3:1
# text = It does not matter at all which piece of clothing goes first
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
7	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
8	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support | It |  |  | all |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | present | which piece of clothing |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Trousers must touch your skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food:t7:o4:1
# text = Trousers must touch your skin
1	Trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | must | Trousers | your skin |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skin=Co-Theme |

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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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