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title: Why must girls especially wipe from front to back? — Eyes, nose and using the toilet · tree and pragmatics
description: Why must girls especially wipe from front to back? Test 2 · ★ 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 2 · ★ · Eyes, nose and using the toilet

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Why must girls especially wipe from front to back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girls · **What happens:** wipe · **To what, where:** front

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t2:1
# text = Why must girls especially wipe from front to back?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wipe	wipe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wipe** | must | girls |  |  | front to back |  | especially *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent from front=Trajectory |

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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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It is quicker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t2:o1:1
# text = It is quicker
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	cop	_	_
3	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It keeps germs from the bottom away from where you wee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t2:o2:1
# text = It keeps germs from the bottom away from where you wee
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wee	wee	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | It | germs |  | the bottom |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer germ=Beneficiary from bottom=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wee** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It keeps the toilet seat clean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t2:o3:1
# text = It keeps the toilet seat clean
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | It | the toilet seat |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It uses less toilet paper than wiping from back to front

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t2:o4:1
# text = It uses less toilet paper than wiping from back to front
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
4	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	wiping	wipe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | It | less toilet paper |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient |
| 2 | **wipe** | gerund |  |  |  | back |  | to front | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent from back=Trajectory |

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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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