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title: my back tooth hurts when i eat sweet stuff — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: my back tooth hurts when i eat sweet stuff Test 15 · ★ 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 15 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

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my back tooth hurts when i eat sweet stuff

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** back tooth, i · **What happens:** hurt, eat · **To what, where:** sweet stuff

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This is test 15 · ★ 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/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t15:1
# text = my back tooth hurts when i eat sweet stuff
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
6	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present | my back tooth |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **eat** | present | i | sweet stuff |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=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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Tell a parent so you can see the dentist soon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t15:o1:1
# text = Tell a parent so you can see the dentist soon
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a parent |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 2 | **see** | can | you | the dentist |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dentist=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Just chew on the other side forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t15:o2:1
# text = Just chew on the other side forever
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	chew	chew	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chew** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the other side; forever *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on side=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Wait until the tooth falls out by itself n it'll stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t15:o3:1
# text = Wait until the tooth falls out by itself n it'll stop
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
9	n	n	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall out** | present | the tooth |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **n** | present | tooth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stop** | future | tooth |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Put sugar on it to calm it down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t15:o4:1
# text = Put sugar on it to calm it down
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	calm	calm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | sugar |  | sugar |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme on it=Destination |
| 2 | **calm down** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | sugar |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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