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title: What does it mean if a tooth hurts with sweet foods? — Flossing and caring for your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: What does it mean if a tooth hurts with sweet foods? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Flossing and caring for your teeth

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What does it mean if a tooth hurts with sweet foods?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it, tooth · **What happens:** mean, hurt

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t9:1
# text = What does it mean if a tooth hurts with sweet foods?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | it |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a tooth |  |  |  |  | with sweet foods | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Sweet foods always hurt teeth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t9:o1:1
# text = Sweet foods always hurt teeth
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | past | Sweet foods | teeth |  |  |  | always *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The tooth is just very healthy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t9:o2:1
# text = The tooth is just very healthy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the tooth |  |  |  |  | healthy *property* | tree rules |

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

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It may have a hole that needs a dentist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t9:o3:1
# text = It may have a hole that needs a dentist
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | may | It | a hole |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | a hole | a dentist |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dentist=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is growing a brand new root underneath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth:t9:o4:1
# text = It is growing a brand new root underneath
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	brand	brand	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present · progressive | It | a new root |  |  |  | underneath *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location root=Theme |

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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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