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title: walking n texting, keep bumping into stuff lol — Eyes up: noticing your surroundings · tree and pragmatics
description: walking n texting, keep bumping into stuff lol Test 10 of lesson 11 «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» 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 10 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

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walking n texting, keep bumping into stuff lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** walk, keep, bump · **To what, where:** n texting, stuff

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This is test 10 of lesson 11 «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» 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/11-eyes-up/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t10:1
# text = walking n texting, keep bumping into stuff lol
1	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
2	n	n	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	texting	texting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	bumping	bump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund | you *not said here* | n texting |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme texting=Trajectory |
| 2 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bump** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | stuff |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into stuff=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Pavements are uneven now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t10:o1:1
# text = Pavements are uneven now
1	Pavements	pavement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	uneven	uneven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Pavements |  |  |  | now | uneven *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Your eyes get tired from walking and looking down at the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t10:o2:1
# text = Your eyes get tired from walking and looking down at the ground
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Your eyes |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | Your eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look down** | gerund | Your eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the ground; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ground=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Phones make you dizzy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t10:o3:1
# text = Phones make you dizzy
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Phones | you |  |  |  | dizzy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

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

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Your attention is on the phone, not around you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t10:o4:1
# text = Your attention is on the phone, not around you
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Your attention |  |  | the phone |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attend** |  | Your |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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