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title: A girl chews a nut into a paste. Which teeth did the grinding? — Teeth and their care · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl chews a nut into a paste. Which teeth did the grinding? Test 4 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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# Test 4 · Teeth and their care

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A girl chews a nut into a paste. Which teeth did the grinding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl, teeth · **What happens:** chew, do · **To what, where:** nut, paste, grinding

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This is test 4 of lesson 35 «Teeth and their care» of the world 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/world/35-teeth-and-care/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl chews a nut into a paste.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:t4:1
# text = A girl chews a nut into a paste.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chews	chew	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	paste	paste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chew** | present | a girl | a nut |  | a paste |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=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:* Which teeth did the grinding?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:t4:2
# text = Which teeth did the grinding?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grinding	grinding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which teeth | the grinding |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grinding=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The milk gums

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:t4:o1:1
# text = The milk gums
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gums	gum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The molars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:t4:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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The canines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:t4:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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The incisors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:t4: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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