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title: Leo keeps rocking on two chair legs at dinner. What would you tell h… — Windows, balconies and furniture · tree and pragmatics
description: Leo keeps rocking on two chair legs at dinner. What would you tell him? Test 6 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Windows, balconies and furniture

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Leo keeps rocking on two chair legs at dinner. What would you tell him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Leo, you · **What happens:** keep, rock, tell · **To what, where:** two chair legs, Leo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Leo keeps rocking on two chair legs at dinner.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture:t6:1
# text = Leo keeps rocking on two chair legs at dinner.
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rocking	rock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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 | **keep** | present | Leo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rock** | gerund | Leo *not said here* |  |  | two chair legs |  | at dinner | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would you tell him?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture:t6:2
# text = What would you tell him?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would | you |  | Leo |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Only rock when the floor is wet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture:t6:o1:1
# text = Only rock when the floor is wet
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the floor |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Rocking on chairs is good exercise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture:t6:o2:1
# text = Rocking on chairs is good exercise
1	Rocking	rock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rock** | gerund |  |  |  | chairs |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chair=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Rocking | good exercise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Rocking on two legs makes your back stronger and straighter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture:t6:o3:1
# text = Rocking on two legs makes your back stronger and straighter
1	Rocking	rock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	straighter	straight	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rock** | gerund |  |  |  | two legs |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Location |
| 2 | **make** | present | Rocking | your back |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset back=Product |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Keep all four legs down or you could fall and hit your head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:110-windows-balconies-and-furniture:t6:o4:1
# text = Keep all four legs down or you could fall and hit your head
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | all four legs |  |  |  | down *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | could | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hit** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your head |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-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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