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title: A girl in Phoenix brushes well twice a day but never cleans between… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Phoenix brushes well twice a day but never cleans between her teeth. What could happen? Test 1 · ★ 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 each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 1 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

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A girl in Phoenix brushes well twice a day but never cleans between her teeth. What could happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** brush, not clean, happen

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 74 «Flossing and caring for 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/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in Phoenix brushes well twice a day but never cleans between her teeth.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t1:1
# text = A girl in Phoenix brushes well twice a day but never cleans between her teeth.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	brushes	brush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	cleans	clean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | present | a girl in Phoenix |  |  |  | day | twice, well *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **clean** | present | a girl in Phoenix *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between girl's teeth | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 could happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t1:2
# text = What could happen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **happen** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Her teeth would grow crooked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t1:o1:1
# text = Her teeth would grow crooked
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	crooked	crook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | Her teeth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crook** | participle | Her teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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Plaque between the teeth could cause decay there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t1:o2:1
# text = Plaque between the teeth could cause decay there
1	Plaque	plaque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	decay	decay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | could | Plaque between the teeth | decay |  | there |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition decay=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Her teeth would get too clean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t1:o3:1
# text = Her teeth would get too clean
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Her teeth |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, because brushing well reaches everywhere in the mouth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t1:o4:1
# text = Nothing, because brushing well reaches everywhere in the mouth
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	brushing	brush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | present | Nothing |  |  | the mouth |  | everywhere *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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