--- title: ★★ «Carefully Ali carried the eggs.» What is the only thing missing? — Fronted adverbials · tree and pragmatics description: ★★ «Carefully Ali carried the eggs.» What is the only thing missing? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 29 «Fronted adverbials» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/29-fronted-adverbials/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Fronted adverbials](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/29-fronted-adverbials/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Fronted adverbials ★★ «Carefully Ali carried the eggs.» What is the only thing missing? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, only thing · **What happens:** carry, be, miss · **To what, where:** eggs This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 29 «Fronted adverbials» of the English 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/english/29-fronted-adverbials/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★ «Carefully Ali carried the eggs.» ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:29-fronted-adverbials:t3:1 # text = ★★ «Carefully Ali carried the eggs.» 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Carefully carefully ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** *in a quote* | past | ★ | the eggs | | | | carefully *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* What is the only thing missing? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:29-fronted-adverbials:t3:2 # text = What is the only thing missing? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 6 missing miss VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the only thing | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **miss** | gerund | the only thing *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} A comma after «Carefully» ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:29-fronted-adverbials:t3:o1:1 # text = A comma after «Carefully» 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 comma comma NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 after after SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Carefully carefully ADV RB _ 2 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} The subject ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:29-fronted-adverbials:t3:o2:1 # text = The subject 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A verb ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:29-fronted-adverbials:t3:o3:1 # text = A verb 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A full stop after «Ali» ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:29-fronted-adverbials:t3:o4:1 # text = A full stop after «Ali» 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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