--- title: walking home and texting, road's quiet tho — Eyes up: noticing your surroundings · tree and pragmatics description: walking home and texting, road's quiet tho Test 14 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/11-eyes-up/t14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Eyes up: noticing your surroundings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/11-eyes-up/) / t14 # Test 14 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings walking home and texting, road's quiet tho **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** walk · **To what, where:** quiet tho This is test 14 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/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t14:1 # text = walking home and texting, road's quiet tho 1 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 home home ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 texting texting NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 tho tho NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | gerund | | road's quiet tho | | | | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Stop and put the phone away before you cross ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t14:o1:1 # text = Stop and put the phone away before you cross 1 Stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 cross cross VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **put away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the phone | | | | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Goal | | 3 | **cross** | present | you | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Text faster so you finish before the road ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t14:o2:1 # text = Text faster so you finish before the road 1 Text text VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 1 advmod _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 finish finish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 6 before before ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **text** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **finish** | present | you | | | | before the road | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ### Option 3 {#o3} Hold the phone higher to see over it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t14:o3:1 # text = Hold the phone higher to see over it 1 Hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 xcomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 7 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | the phone | | | | high *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | phone | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 4 {#o4} Keep texting, quiet roads are safe ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t14:o4:1 # text = Keep texting, quiet roads are safe 1 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 texting texting NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | texting | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent texting=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | quiet roads | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | **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. 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