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title: "Baby teeth fall out anyway, why fill 'em?" Best answer? — Sugar, teeth and the dentist · tree and pragmatics
description: "Baby teeth fall out anyway, why fill 'em?" Best answer? Test 3 · ★ 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 3 · ★ · Sugar, teeth and the dentist

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"Baby teeth fall out anyway, why fill 'em?" Best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Baby teeth · **What happens:** fall out, fill · **To what, where:** 'em

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Baby teeth fall out anyway, why fill 'em?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t3:1
# text = "Baby teeth fall out anyway, why fill 'em?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall out** *in a quote* | present | Baby teeth |  |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** *in a quote* | infinitive | Baby teeth *not said here* | 'em *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:* Best answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t3:2
# text = Best answer?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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No point, leave them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t3:o1:1
# text = No point, leave them
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | infinitive | no point | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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

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Decay hurts and baby teeth hold space for adult ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t3:o2:1
# text = Decay hurts and baby teeth hold space for adult ones
1	Decay	decay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present | Decay |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hold** | present | baby teeth | space |  |  |  | for adult ones | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Baby teeth turn into adult ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t3:o3:1
# text = Baby teeth turn into adult ones
1	Baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | Baby teeth |  |  |  |  | into adult ones | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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So the tooth fairy pays more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t3:o4:1
# text = So the tooth fairy pays more
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present | the tooth fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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