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title: crossing in sydney, which way first — Eyes up: noticing your surroundings · tree and pragmatics
description: crossing in sydney, which way first Test 13 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 right.
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# Test 13 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

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crossing in sydney, which way first

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** cross · **To what, where:** sydney

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This is test 13 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t13:1
# text = crossing in sydney, which way first
1	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	sydney	sydney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | gerund |  |  |  | sydney and which way |  | first *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Right, the nearest cars come from the right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t13:o1:1
# text = Right, the nearest cars come from the right
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the nearest cars |  |  | the right |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from right=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It does not matter there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t13:o2:1
# text = It does not matter there
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	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 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support | It |  |  | there |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Left, the nearest cars come from the left

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t13:o3:1
# text = Left, the nearest cars come from the left
1	Left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle | the nearest cars *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | the nearest cars |  |  | the left |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from left=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only straight ahead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t13:o4:1
# text = Only straight ahead
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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