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title: What would happen if you poked a cotton bud deep into your ear every… — Sore throats, ears and eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you poked a cotton bud deep into your ear every day? Test 4 of lesson 9 «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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 · Sore throats, ears and eyes

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What would happen if you poked a cotton bud deep into your ear every day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, poke · **To what, where:** cotton bud

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This is test 4 of lesson 9 «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:t4:1
# text = What would happen if you poked a cotton bud deep into your ear every day?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	poked	poke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **poke** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | a cotton bud |  |  | day | into your ear | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent bud=Instrument into ear=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.

## The options {#options}

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

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Wax could be pushed deeper and block the ear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:t4:o1:1
# text = Wax could be pushed deeper and block the ear
1	Wax	Wax	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | could · passive |  | Wax |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **block** | infinitive |  | the ear |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ear=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You would hear better and better each day, like a bat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:t4:o2:1
# text = You would hear better and better each day, like a bat
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | would | You |  |  |  | day | well *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:t4:o3:1
# text = Nothing at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Your ears would stay perfectly clean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes:t4:o4:1
# text = Your ears would stay perfectly clean
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | Your ears |  |  |  |  | clean, perfectly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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