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title: A boy in Glasgow has breakfast with a big glass of orange juice and… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Glasgow has breakfast with a big glass of orange juice and wants to brush right after. What is wiser? Test 6 · ★ 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 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A boy in Glasgow has breakfast with a big glass of orange juice and wants to brush right after. What is wiser?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** have, want, brush, be · **To what, where:** breakfast

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Glasgow has breakfast with a big glass of orange juice and wants to brush right after.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t6:1
# text = A boy in Glasgow has breakfast with a big glass of orange juice and wants to brush right after.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	brush	brush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	right	right	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	after	after	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a boy in Glasgow | breakfast |  |  |  | with a big glass of orange juice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient |
| 2 | **want** | present | a boy in Glasgow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **brush** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a boy in Glasgow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | after *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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is wiser?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t6:2
# text = What is wiser?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Skip brushing in the morning altogether

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t6:o1:1
# text = Skip brushing in the morning altogether
1	Skip	skip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	brushing	brushing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Drink more juice so the acid gets weaker and weaker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t6:o2:1
# text = Drink more juice so the acid gets weaker and weaker
1	Drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* | more juice |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | present | the acid |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Brush much harder than usual after the juice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t6:o3:1
# text = Brush much harder than usual after the juice
1	Brush	brush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after the juice | hard *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Brush before breakfast or wait about an hour after

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t6:o4:1
# text = Brush before breakfast or wait about an hour after
1	Brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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