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title: Which drink between meals is kindest to teeth? — Sugar, teeth and the dentist · tree and pragmatics
description: Which drink between meals is kindest to teeth? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 24 «Sugar, teeth and the dentist» of the medicine 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 10 · ★ · Sugar, teeth and the dentist

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Which drink between meals is kindest to teeth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** drink, be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 24 «Sugar, teeth and the dentist» of the medicine 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/medicine/24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t10:1
# text = Which drink between meals is kindest to teeth?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	kindest	kind	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present |  |  |  |  |  | between meals; to teeth | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |

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

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Water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t10:o1:1
# text = Water
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sports drink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t10:o2:1
# text = Sports drink
1	Sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drink	drink	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 | **drink** | present | Sports |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Orange juice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t10:o3:1
# text = Orange juice
1	Orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cola

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t10:o4:1
# text = Cola
1	Cola	Cola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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