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title: A little girl likes to swallow her sweet toothpaste. What should she… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: A little girl likes to swallow her sweet toothpaste. What should she learn? Test 9 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Brushing your teeth

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A little girl likes to swallow her sweet toothpaste. What should she learn?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** little girl, girl · **What happens:** like, swallow, learn · **To what, where:** sweet toothpaste

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A little girl likes to swallow her sweet toothpaste.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t9:1
# text = A little girl likes to swallow her sweet toothpaste.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | a little girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **swallow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a little girl *not said here* | girl's sweet toothpaste |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothpaste=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should she learn?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t9:2
# text = What should she learn?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | should | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It is fine because it tastes nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t9:o1:1
# text = It is fine because it tastes nice
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **taste** | present | it |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Toothpaste is for cleaning and should be spat out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t9:o2:1
# text = Toothpaste is for cleaning and should be spat out
1	Toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	spat	spat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Toothpaste |  |  |  |  | for cleaning | tree rules |
| 2 | **spat out** | should · passive | Toothpaste *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V» |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Swallowing it makes the teeth stronger from the inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t9:o3:1
# text = Swallowing it makes the teeth stronger from the inside
1	Swallowing	swallow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Swallowing | the teeth |  | the inside |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset tooth=Product from inside=Material |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She should swallow it only at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:73-brushing-your-teeth:t9:o4:1
# text = She should swallow it only at night
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | should | She | it |  |  | night |  | vn gobble-39.3 «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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