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title: Identify the teeth whose function is the grinding and crushing of fo… — Teeth and their care · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the teeth whose function is the grinding and crushing of food. Exam question 2 of lesson 35 «Teeth and their care» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 2 · Teeth and their care

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Identify the teeth whose function is the grinding and crushing of food.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, teeth · **What happens:** identify, be, crush · **To what, where:** grinding

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 35 «Teeth and their care» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/world/35-teeth-and-care/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:e2:1
# text = Identify the teeth whose function is the grinding and crushing of food.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	function	function	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	grinding	grinding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	crushing	crush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the teeth | the grinding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crush** | gerund | the teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of food | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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 {#o1}

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The milk teeth alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:e2:o1:1
# text = The milk teeth alone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The canines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:e2:o2:1
# text = The canines
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	canines	canine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The molars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:e2:o3:1
# text = The molars
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	molars	molar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The incisors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:e2:o4:1
# text = The incisors
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	incisors	incisor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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