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title: A girl flushes a wet wipe because it says «moist». What could happen? — Eyes, nose and using the toilet · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl flushes a wet wipe because it says «moist». What could happen? Test 3 · ★ 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 3 · ★ · Eyes, nose and using the toilet

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A girl flushes a wet wipe because it says «moist». What could happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girl, wipe · **What happens:** flush, say, happen · **To what, where:** wet wipe, moist · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl flushes a wet wipe because it says «moist».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t3:1
# text = A girl flushes a wet wipe because it says «moist».
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flushes	flush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wipe	wipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flush** | present | a girl | a wet wipe |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wipe=Source |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | wipe | moist |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent moist=Topic |

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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 could happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t3:2
# text = What could happen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **happen** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It would scrub the pipes clean on the way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t3:o1:1
# text = It would scrub the pipes clean on the way
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	scrub	scrub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	clean	clean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrub** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **clean** | present | the pipes |  |  | the way |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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It could block the pipes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t3:o2:1
# text = It could block the pipes
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **block** | could | It | the pipes |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer pipe=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, wipes are made to flush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t3:o3:1
# text = Nothing, wipes are made to flush
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wipes	wipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	flush	flush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | Nothing wipes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flush** | to-infinitive | Nothing wipes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would dissolve like toilet paper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t3:o4:1
# text = It would dissolve like toilet paper
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dissolve** | would | It |  |  |  |  | like toilet paper | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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