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title: cba to tidy, leaving my toys on the stairs — Gratitude, helping at home and privacy · tree and pragmatics
description: cba to tidy, leaving my toys on the stairs Test 14 · ★ of lesson 102 «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» 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 14 · ★ · Gratitude, helping at home and privacy

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cba to tidy, leaving my toys on the stairs

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** tidy, leave · **To what, where:** toys, stairs

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 102 «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» 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/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy:t14:1
# text = cba to tidy, leaving my toys on the stairs
1	cba	cba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	tidy	tidy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tidy** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund |  | my toys |  | the stairs |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toy=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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Put them on every other step

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy:t14:o1:1
# text = Put them on every other step
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | on every other step | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on step=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only big toys are a problem

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy:t14:o2:1
# text = Only big toys are a problem
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | big toys | a problem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Leave them, people always look where they're walking on stairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy:t14:o3:1
# text = Leave them, people always look where they're walking on stairs
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | present | people |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **walk** | present · progressive | people |  |  | stairs |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stair=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Tidy them, someone could trip and fall down the stairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy:t14:o4:1
# text = Tidy them, someone could trip and fall down the stairs
1	Tidy	tidy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	trip	trip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tidy** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trip** | could | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall down** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | the stairs |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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