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title: Why would a dentist tell you not to snap floss down hard? — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would a dentist tell you not to snap floss down hard? Test 6 · ★ 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.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

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Why would a dentist tell you not to snap floss down hard?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dentist, you · **What happens:** tell, not snap · **To what, where:** floss · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t6:1
# text = Why would a dentist tell you not to snap floss down hard?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	snap	snap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	floss	floss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would | a dentist |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **snap** | to-infinitive | you | floss |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location floss=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It makes the teeth loose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t6:o1:1
# text = It makes the teeth loose
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It hurts and can damage the gums

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t6:o2:1
# text = It hurts and can damage the gums
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gums	gum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **damage** | can |  | the gums |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gum=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It breaks the floss much too quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t6:o3:1
# text = It breaks the floss much too quickly
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	floss	floss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present | It | the floss |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer floss=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It puts germs on the floss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t6:o4:1
# text = It puts germs on the floss
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	floss	floss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | It | germs |  | the floss |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme on floss=Destination |

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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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