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description: What would happen if you pressed a clean tissue on a bleeding baby tooth gap for a few minutes? Test 7 · ★ 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 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

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What would happen if you pressed a clean tissue on a bleeding baby tooth gap for a few minutes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, press · **To what, where:** clean tissue, tooth gap

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t7:1
# text = What would happen if you pressed a clean tissue on a bleeding baby tooth gap for a few minutes?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tissue	tissue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **press** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | a clean tissue |  | a tooth gap for a few minutes |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tissue=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A new tooth would grow at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t7:o1:1
# text = A new tooth would grow at once
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | a new tooth |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |

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

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The small bleeding would usually stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t7:o2:1
# text = The small bleeding would usually stop
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | the small bleeding |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The gap would become infected from the tissue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t7:o3:1
# text = The gap would become infected from the tissue
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	infected	infect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tissue	tissue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | the gap |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **infect** | participle | the gap *not said here* |  |  | the tissue |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The bleeding would get worse and worse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t7:o4:1
# text = The bleeding would get worse and worse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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