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title: What would help teeth most after eating sweets? — Teeth and their care · tree and pragmatics
description: What would help teeth most after eating sweets? Test 5 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 right.
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# Test 5 · Teeth and their care

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What would help teeth most after eating sweets?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** help, eat · **To what, where:** teeth, sweets

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:t5:1
# text = What would help teeth most after eating sweets?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | would |  | teeth |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  | sweets |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=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 {#o1}

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Biting on ice to harden them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:t5:o1:1
# text = Biting on ice to harden them
1	Biting	bite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	harden	harden	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | gerund |  |  |  | ice |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on ice=Location |
| 2 | **harden** | to-infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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

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Brushing them with fluoride toothpaste

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:t5:o2:1
# text = Brushing them with fluoride toothpaste
1	Brushing	brush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	fluoride	fluoride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brush** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | with fluoride toothpaste | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with toothpaste=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eating more sweets to cover the old sugar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:t5:o3:1
# text = Eating more sweets to cover the old sugar
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | more sweets |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient |
| 2 | **cover** | to-infinitive |  | the old sugar |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sugar=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Drinking a sweet juice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:35-teeth-and-care:t5:o4:1
# text = Drinking a sweet juice
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | gerund |  | a sweet juice |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent juice=Patient |

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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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