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title: almost walked into a lamp post lol watching tiktok — Eyes up: noticing your surroundings · tree and pragmatics
description: almost walked into a lamp post lol watching tiktok Test 15 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 15 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

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almost walked into a lamp post lol watching tiktok

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** walk, watch · **To what, where:** lamp post, tiktok

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This is test 15 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/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t15:1
# text = almost walked into a lamp post lol watching tiktok
1	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	tiktok	tiktok	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past |  |  |  |  |  | into a lamp post *result*; almost *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into post=Result |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund |  | tiktok |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiktok=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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Look up when you walk; next time it could be a car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t15:o1:1
# text = Look up when you walk; next time it could be a car
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **walk** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | could | it | a car |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only watch on short walks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t15:o2:1
# text = Only watch on short walks
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | short walks |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on walk=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Turn the sound up so you can hear what is around you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t15:o3:1
# text = Turn the sound up so you can hear what is around you
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	ccomp	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sound |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | can | you |  |  |  |  | around you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Walk slower and keep watching

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t15:o4:1
# text = Walk slower and keep watching
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	slower	slow	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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