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description: A toddler is playing quietly under the kitchen sink. What could be happening? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Sharp things, small objects and little ones

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A toddler is playing quietly under the kitchen sink. What could be happening?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** toddler · **What happens:** play, happen · **To what, where:** kitchen sink

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A toddler is playing quietly under the kitchen sink.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones:t8:1
# text = A toddler is playing quietly under the kitchen sink.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sink	sink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · progressive | a toddler |  |  | the kitchen sink |  | quietly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 could be happening?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones:t8:2
# text = What could be happening?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | could · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He is sleeping and should be left

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones:t8:o1:1
# text = He is sleeping and should be left
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present · progressive | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | should · passive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Quiet toddlers never touch anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones:t8:o2:1
# text = Quiet toddlers never touch anything
1	Quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | present | Quiet toddlers | anything |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He is certainly safe in there because he is quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones:t8:o3:1
# text = He is certainly safe in there because he is quiet
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | certainly, safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He may be getting into something dangerous, so check

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:112-sharp-things-and-little-ones:t8:o4:1
# text = He may be getting into something dangerous, so check
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | may · progressive | He |  |  | something |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into something=Destination |
| 2 | **check** | infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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