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title: can i sit on the windowsill upstairs, nice view — Windows, balconies and furniture · tree and pragmatics
description: can i sit on the windowsill upstairs, nice view Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Windows, balconies and furniture» 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 10 · ★★ · Windows, balconies and furniture

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
can i sit on the windowsill upstairs, nice view

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** i · **What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** nice view, windowsill

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Windows, balconies and furniture» 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/110-windows-balconies-and-furniture/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture:t10:1
# text = can i sit on the windowsill upstairs, nice view
1	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | can | i | nice view |  | the windowsill |  | upstairs *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on windowsill=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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if you hold the curtain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture:t10:o1:1
# text = Yes, if you hold the curtain
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | you | the curtain |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, you could fall out, sit away from the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture:t10:o2:1
# text = No, you could fall out, sit away from the window
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall out** | could | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the window |  | away *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if the window is shut it is totally fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture:t10:o3:1
# text = Yes, if the window is shut it is totally fine
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	expl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the window |  |  |  |  | shut *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the window *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fine, totally *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if you're over eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture:t10:o4:1
# text = Yes, if you're over eight
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | you | eight |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |

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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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