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title: Why does an adult test bath water with an elbow and not a hand? — Washing your body and caring for your… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does an adult test bath water with an elbow and not a hand? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 76 «Washing your body and caring for your hair» 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 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair

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Why does an adult test bath water with an elbow and not a hand?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** bath water

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 76 «Washing your body and caring for your hair» 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/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:76-washing-your-body-and-hair:t6:1
# text = Why does an adult test bath water with an elbow and not a hand?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | a bath water |  |  |  | with a elbow and a hand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality |

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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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The hand is always too dirty to put in the bath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:76-washing-your-body-and-hair:t6:o1:1
# text = The hand is always too dirty to put in the bath
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the hand |  |  |  |  | always, dirty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | the hand *not said here* |  |  | the bath |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bath=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The elbow cannot get scalded

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:76-washing-your-body-and-hair:t6:o2:1
# text = The elbow cannot get scalded
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	scalded	scald	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **scald** | can · passive |  | the elbow |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The elbow feels heat better, so it is a fairer test

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:76-washing-your-body-and-hair:t6:o3:1
# text = The elbow feels heat better, so it is a fairer test
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | the elbow | heat |  |  |  | good *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | elbow | a fairer test |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Elbows are the strongest part of the arm and do not mind heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:76-washing-your-body-and-hair:t6:o4:1
# text = Elbows are the strongest part of the arm and do not mind heat
1	Elbows	elbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Elbows | the strongest part |  |  |  | of the arm | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **mind** | infinitive · do-support | Elbows *not said here* | heat |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=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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