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title: Two friends at a sleepover want to use one towel to save washing. Wh… — Washing your body and caring for your… · tree and pragmatics
description: Two friends at a sleepover want to use one towel to save washing. What is better? Test 7 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair

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Two friends at a sleepover want to use one towel to save washing. What is better?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Two friends · **What happens:** want, use, save, be · **To what, where:** one towel, washing

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Two friends at a sleepover want to use one towel to save washing.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:76-washing-your-body-and-hair:t7:1
# text = Two friends at a sleepover want to use one towel to save washing.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | infinitive | Two friends at a sleepover |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **use** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Two friends at a sleepover *not said here* | one towel |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent towel=Patient |
| 3 | **save** | to-infinitive | Two friends at a sleepover *not said here* | washing |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent washing=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is better?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:76-washing-your-body-and-hair:t7:2
# text = What is better?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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They dry themselves with their pyjamas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:76-washing-your-body-and-hair:t7:o1:1
# text = They dry themselves with their pyjamas
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dry	dry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pyjamas	pyjama	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | present | They | themselves *= they* |  |  |  | with their pyjamas | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient with pyjama=Instrument |

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

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Each uses their own towel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:76-washing-your-body-and-hair:t7:o2:1
# text = Each uses their own towel
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Each | their own towel |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent towel=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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They share it but use different sides

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:76-washing-your-body-and-hair:t7:o3:1
# text = They share it but use different sides
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present | They | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | They *not said here* | different sides |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They share it if it looks clean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:76-washing-your-body-and-hair:t7:o4:1
# text = They share it if it looks clean
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present | They | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | it |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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