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title: Which habit keeps you safest on stairs? — Going up and down stairs safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Which habit keeps you safest on stairs? Test 2 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 right.
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# Test 2 · Going up and down stairs safely

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Which habit keeps you safest on stairs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** habit · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** you, stairs

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:1-stairs:t2:1
# text = Which habit keeps you safest on stairs?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | which habit | you |  | stairs |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme on stair=Location |

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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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Taking big leaps to get to the bottom sooner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:1-stairs:t2:o1:1
# text = Taking big leaps to get to the bottom sooner
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	leaps	leap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | big leaps |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the bottom *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bottom=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Running so you spend less time there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:1-stairs:t2:o2:1
# text = Running so you spend less time there
1	Running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** | present | you |  |  | there | time |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sliding down the banister

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:1-stairs:t2:o3:1
# text = Sliding down the banister
1	Sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	banister	banister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide** | gerund |  |  |  | the banister |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down banister=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Holding the rail and taking each step

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:1-stairs:t2:o4:1
# text = Holding the rail and taking each step
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund |  | the rail |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rail=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | gerund |  | each step |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme |

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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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