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title: Which way of carrying scissors is safest if you trip? — Sharp things, small objects and little… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which way of carrying scissors is safest if you trip? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 112 «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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 1 · ★ · Sharp things, small objects and little ones

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Which way of carrying scissors is safest if you trip?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** way, you · **What happens:** carry, be, trip · **To what, where:** scissors

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 112 «Sharp things, small objects and little ones» 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/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones:t1:1
# text = Which way of carrying scissors is safest if you trip?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	trip	trip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | gerund | which way *not said here* | scissors |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | which way |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **trip** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Open and pointing up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones:t1:o1:1
# text = Open and pointing up
1	Open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Closed and pointing forward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones:t1:o2:1
# text = Closed and pointing forward
1	Closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **point** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Closed and pointing down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones:t1:o3:1
# text = Closed and pointing down
1	Closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **point down** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Open and held by one blade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones:t1:o4:1
# text = Open and held by one blade
1	Open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by one blade | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by blade=Location |

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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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