--- title: ★★★ «As soon as the bell rang, Max grabbed his bag and ran out of th… — Fronted adverbials · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ «As soon as the bell rang, Max grabbed his bag and ran out of the door.» How long is the fronted adverbial? Test 4 · ★ 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 w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/29-fronted-adverbials/t4/) [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/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Fronted adverbials ★★★ «As soon as the bell rang, Max grabbed his bag and ran out of the door.» How long is the fronted adverbial? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bell, ★ · **What happens:** ring, grab, run, front, be · **To what, where:** bag, door, fronted adverbial This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ «As soon as the bell rang, Max grabbed his bag and ran out of the door.» ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:29-fronted-adverbials:t4:1 # text = ★★★ «As soon as the bell rang, Max grabbed his bag and ran out of the door.» 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 As as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 Max Max PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 grabbed grab VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 out out ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ring** *in a quote* | past | the bell | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **grab** *in a quote* | past | ★ | Max's bag | | | | soon *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | | 3 | **run** *in a quote* | past | ★ *not said here* | | | the door | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out door=Trajectory | 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:* How long is the fronted adverbial? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:29-fronted-adverbials:t4:2 # text = How long is the fronted adverbial? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 fronted front VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 adverbial adverbial NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **front** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the fronted adverbial | | | | long *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Three words ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:29-fronted-adverbials:t4:o1:1 # text = Three words 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Six words ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:29-fronted-adverbials:t4:o2:1 # text = Six words 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Five words ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:29-fronted-adverbials:t4:o3:1 # text = Five words 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} One word ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:29-fronted-adverbials:t4:o4:1 # text = One word 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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