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title: A friend says the best thing for constipation is to stop eating. Wha… — Eyes, nose and using the toilet · tree and pragmatics
description: A friend says the best thing for constipation is to stop eating. What is true? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Eyes, nose and using the toilet

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A friend says the best thing for constipation is to stop eating. What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** friend, best thing · **What happens:** say, be, eat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A friend says the best thing for constipation is to stop eating.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t9:1
# text = A friend says the best thing for constipation is to stop eating.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	constipation	constipation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
12	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | the best thing for constipation |  |  |  |  | stop *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | the best thing for constipation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t9:2
# text = What is true?
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	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Fruit, vegetables, whole grains and water help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t9:o1:1
# text = Fruit, vegetables, whole grains and water help
1	Fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Fruit and vegetables and whole grains and water |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eating only cheese helps most

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t9:o2:1
# text = Eating only cheese helps most
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | cheese |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | present | Eating | most |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Stopping eating for a day or two cures it at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t9:o3:1
# text = Stopping eating for a day or two cures it at once
1	Stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	cures	cure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cure** | present | Stopping | it |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sweets make it pass faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:78-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet:t9:o4:1
# text = Sweets make it pass faster
1	Sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	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	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Sweets | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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