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title: in my socks, wood stairs, kinda slippy — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics
description: in my socks, wood stairs, kinda slippy Test 12 of lesson 1 «Going up and down stairs safely» of the everyday 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 12 · Going up and down stairs safely

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in my socks, wood stairs, kinda slippy

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗

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This is test 12 of lesson 1 «Going up and down stairs safely» of the everyday 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/everyday/1-stairs/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:1-stairs:t12:1
# text = in my socks, wood stairs, kinda slippy
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	slippy	slippy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Pull the socks up higher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:1-stairs:t12:o1:1
# text = Pull the socks up higher
1	Pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the socks |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Just run so you don't slip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:1-stairs:t12:o2:1
# text = Just run so you don't slip
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **slip** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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

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Take the socks off or put shoes on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:1-stairs:t12:o3:1
# text = Take the socks off or put shoes on
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | imperative | you *not said here* | the socks |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Theme |
| 2 | **put on** | infinitive | you *not said here* | shoes |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoe=Goal |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hold your phone out in front for balance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:1-stairs:t12:o4:1
# text = Hold your phone out in front for balance
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold out** | imperative | you *not said here* | your phone |  | front |  | for balance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent phone=Theme in front=Location |

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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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