--- title: Which is true about chewing gum? — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics description: Which is true about chewing gum? Test 2 · ★ 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 was right. --- [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/t2/) [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/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth Which is true about chewing gum? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, chew · **To what, where:** gum This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t2:1 # text = Which is true about chewing gum? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 about about SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 chewing chew VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 6 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **chew** | gerund | | gum | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gum=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 {#o1} Gum is healthy to swallow every day ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t2:o1:1 # text = Gum is healthy to swallow every day 1 Gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Gum | | | | | healthy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **swallow** | to-infinitive | Gum *not said here* | | | | day | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Gum is digested like bread ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t2:o2:1 # text = Gum is digested like bread 1 Gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 digested digest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **digest** | present · passive | | Gum | | | | like bread | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Swallowed gum passes through, though it is not digested ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t2:o3:1 # text = Swallowed gum passes through, though it is not digested 1 Swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 through through ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 though though SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 digested digest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | participle | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **pass through** | present | Swallowed gum | | | | | through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **digest** | present · passive | | gum | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Swallowed gum stays inside the stomach for seven whole years ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t2:o4:1 # text = Swallowed gum stays inside the stomach for seven whole years 1 Swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 inside inside ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | participle | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stay** | present | Swallowed gum | | | the stomach | year | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside stomach=Location | **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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