--- title: Which of the following most accurately characterises the appropriate… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: Which of the following most accurately characterises the appropriate everyday beverages for the protection of the teeth? Exam question 3 of lesson 74 «Flossing and caring for your teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Flossing and caring for your teeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Flossing and caring for your teeth Which of the following most accurately characterises the appropriate everyday beverages for the protection of the teeth? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** follow, characteris, protect · **To what, where:** appropriate everyday beverages, teeth This is exam question 3 of lesson 74 «Flossing and caring for your teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:e3:1 # text = Which of the following most accurately characterises the appropriate everyday beverages for the protection of the teeth? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 7 advmod _ _ 6 accurately accurately ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 characterises characteris VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 appropriate appropriate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 beverages beverage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **characteris** | present | | the appropriate everyday beverages | | | | for the protection of the teeth; accurately *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **protect** | | | the teeth | | | | | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} Water and milk ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:e3:o1:1 # text = Water and milk 1 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Sweetened tea and cola ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:e3:o2:1 # text = Sweetened tea and cola 1 Sweetened sweeten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 cola cola NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sweeten** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Sports drinks and squash ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:e3:o3:1 # text = Sports drinks and squash 1 Sports sport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 compound _ _ 2 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 squash squash NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Fizzy drinks and fruit juice ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:e3:o4:1 # text = Fizzy drinks and fruit juice 1 Fizzy fizzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 juice juice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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