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title: Sam drops a jar in the kitchen in Sydney while his baby sister crawl… — Chores and broken things · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam drops a jar in the kitchen in Sydney while his baby sister crawls nearby. What matters most first? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 111 «Chores and broken things» 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 wr
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# Test 4 · ★ · Chores and broken things

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Sam drops a jar in the kitchen in Sydney while his baby sister crawls nearby. What matters most first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sam, baby sister · **What happens:** drop, crawl, matter · **To what, where:** jar, kitchen

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 111 «Chores and broken things» 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/111-chores-and-broken-things/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Sam drops a jar in the kitchen in Sydney while his baby sister crawls nearby.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things:t4:1
# text = Sam drops a jar in the kitchen in Sydney while his baby sister crawls nearby.
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	crawls	crawl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
15	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | Sam | a jar |  | the kitchen in Sydney |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jar=Theme in kitchen=Destination |
| 2 | **crawl** | present | Sam's baby sister |  |  |  |  | nearby *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What matters most first?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things:t4:2
# text = What matters most first?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Saving the jam that spilled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things:t4:o1:1
# text = Saving the jam that spilled
1	Saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spilled	spill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | gerund |  | the jam |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jam=Theme |
| 2 | **spill** | past | the jam |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Keeping his sister and the pets away from the glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things:t4:o2:1
# text = Keeping his sister and the pets away from the glass
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | gerund |  | his sister and the pets |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Finding out how much the jar cost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things:t4:o3:1
# text = Finding out how much the jar cost
1	Finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | gerund |  | much jar cost |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sweeping it all away barefoot before anyone in the house sees the mess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things:t4:o4:1
# text = Sweeping it all away barefoot before anyone in the house sees the mess
1	Sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	barefoot	barefoot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | gerund |  | it |  |  | before anyone |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme barefoot=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | present | Sweeping | the mess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mess=Stimulus |

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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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