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title: What makes the holes in teeth? — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: What makes the holes in teeth? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

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What makes the holes in teeth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** holes, teeth

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t7:1
# text = What makes the holes in teeth?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present |  | the holes |  | teeth |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material hole=Product |

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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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Acid made by plaque germs feeding on food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t7:o1:1
# text = Acid made by plaque germs feeding on food
1	Acid	acid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	plaque	plaque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | Acid *not said here* |  |  |  | by plaque germs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **feed** | gerund | plaque germs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on food | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on food=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cold air getting into the mouth when you breathe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t7:o2:1
# text = Cold air getting into the mouth when you breathe
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | gerund | Cold air *not said here* |  |  | the mouth |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into mouth=Destination |
| 2 | **breathe** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Drinking far too much plain water every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t7:o3:1
# text = Drinking far too much plain water every day
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | gerund |  | much plain water |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Brushing the teeth too often, more than twice a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t7:o4:1
# text = Brushing the teeth too often, more than twice a day
1	Brushing	brush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | gerund |  | the teeth |  |  |  | often *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=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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