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title: sand in my eye, rubbing it hard — Eyes, nose and using the toilet · tree and pragmatics
description: sand in my eye, rubbing it hard Test 14 · ★ of lesson 78 «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» 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 14 · ★ · Eyes, nose and using the toilet

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sand in my eye, rubbing it hard

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sand · **What happens:** rub · **To what, where:** eye

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 78 «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» 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/78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t14:1
# text = sand in my eye, rubbing it hard
1	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | gerund | sand in my eye | eye |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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Close it and sleep with it in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t14:o1:1
# text = Close it and sleep with it in
1	Close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **sleep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with it | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Poke it out with a finger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t14:o2:1
# text = Poke it out with a finger
1	Poke	poke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke out** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | with a finger | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Rub harder and faster with your knuckle until the sand comes out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t14:o3:1
# text = Rub harder and faster with your knuckle until the sand comes out
1	Rub	rub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	knuckle	knuckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | present | the sand |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stop rubbing, blink and rinse with clean water, tell an adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t14:o4:1
# text = Stop rubbing, blink and rinse with clean water, tell an adult
1	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	blink	blink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	rinse	rinse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **rub** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **blink** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rinse** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with clean water | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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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