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title: Which helps you spot something unusual in your street? — Eyes up: noticing your surroundings · tree and pragmatics
description: Which helps you spot something unusual in your street? Test 8 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 8 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

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Which helps you spot something unusual in your street?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** help, spot · **To what, where:** you, something

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t8:1
# text = Which helps you spot something unusual in your street?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **spot** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  | in your street | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent something=Destination in street=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 {#o1}

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Walking through it only at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t8:o1:1
# text = Walking through it only at night
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  | it | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Never looking at the street at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t8:o2:1
# text = Never looking at the street at all
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at all; at the street | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at street=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Knowing what it usually looks like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t8:o3:1
# text = Knowing what it usually looks like
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	obj	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | present | Knowing |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Listening to loud music as you go

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:11-eyes-up:t8:o4:1
# text = Listening to loud music as you go
1	Listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to loud music | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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