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title: too tired, i'll brush in the morning instead of tonight — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: too tired, i'll brush in the morning instead of tonight Test 11 · ★ of lesson 73 «Brushing your teeth» 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 11 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

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too tired, i'll brush in the morning instead of tonight

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** i · **What happens:** brush

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 73 «Brushing your teeth» 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/73-brushing-your-teeth/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t11:1
# text = too tired, i'll brush in the morning instead of tonight
1	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	brush	brush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | future | i |  |  |  | morning; tonight | instead *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, the bedtime brush is the most important one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t11:o1:1
# text = No, the bedtime brush is the most important one
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the bedtime brush | the important one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, the morning brush is enough to last the whole day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, the morning brush is enough to last the whole day
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the morning brush |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **last** | to-infinitive | the morning brush *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, if you ate nothing sweet all day after school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t11:o3:1
# text = Yes, if you ate nothing sweet all day after school
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | you | nothing |  |  | after school; day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, teeth rest at night anyway, so they are safe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t11:o4:1
# text = Yes, teeth rest at night anyway, so they are safe
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rest	rest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | present | teeth |  |  |  | night | anyway *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  |  | safe *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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