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title: Cartoon dentist pulls teeth with pliers while the kid screams. What'… — Sugar, teeth and the dentist · tree and pragmatics
description: Cartoon dentist pulls teeth with pliers while the kid screams. What's real? Test 4 · ★ 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 4 · ★ · Sugar, teeth and the dentist

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Cartoon dentist pulls teeth with pliers while the kid screams. What's real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Cartoon dentist, kid · **What happens:** pull, scream, be · **To what, where:** teeth

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Cartoon dentist pulls teeth with pliers while the kid screams.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t4:1
# text = Cartoon dentist pulls teeth with pliers while the kid screams.
1	Cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pliers	plier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	screams	scream	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | Cartoon dentist | teeth |  |  |  | with pliers | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | the kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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's real?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t4:2
# text = What's real?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	real	real	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 |  |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Kids must stay silent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t4:o1:1
# text = Kids must stay silent
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | must | Kids |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Dentists numb the area and agree a stop signal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t4:o2:1
# text = Dentists numb the area and agree a stop signal
1	Dentists	dentist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	numb	numb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **numb** | present | Dentists | the area |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus area=Experiencer |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive | Dentists *not said here* | a stop signal |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent signal=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dentists always pull teeth out, even healthy ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t4:o3:1
# text = Dentists always pull teeth out, even healthy ones
1	Dentists	dentist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	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 | **pull out** | present | Dentists | teeth |  |  |  | healthy ones *obl*; always, out *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dentists never numb anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:24-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist:t4:o4:1
# text = Dentists never numb anything
1	Dentists	dentist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	numb	numb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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