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title: A family drinks cola with every meal. What would a dentist probably… — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: A family drinks cola with every meal. What would a dentist probably say? Test 5 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

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A family drinks cola with every meal. What would a dentist probably say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family, dentist · **What happens:** drink, say · **To what, where:** cola · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A family drinks cola with every meal.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t5:1
# text = A family drinks cola with every meal.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | a family | cola |  |  |  | with every meal | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cola=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 would a dentist probably say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t5:2
# text = What would a dentist probably say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | a dentist |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Cola is fine if you drink it with a straw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t5:o1:1
# text = Cola is fine if you drink it with a straw
1	Cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
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	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cola |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | Cola |  |  |  | with a straw | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Drink juice instead, it has no sugar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t5:o2:1
# text = Drink juice instead, it has no sugar
1	Drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* | juice |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | juice | no sugar |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Choose water or milk most of the time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t5:o3:1
# text = Choose water or milk most of the time
1	Choose	choose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | imperative | you *not said here* | water or milk |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent water=Beneficiary most=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cola makes teeth stronger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t5:o4:1
# text = Cola makes teeth stronger
1	Cola	cola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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

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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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