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description: Ben in Colorado steps on a rake and the handle hits his nose. How could it have been avoided? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 115 «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fire, candles and garage and garden tools

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Ben in Colorado steps on a rake and the handle hits his nose. How could it have been avoided?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ben, handle · **What happens:** step, hit, avoid · **To what, where:** rake, nose

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 115 «Fire, candles and garage and garden tools» 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/115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben in Colorado steps on a rake and the handle hits his nose.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t8:1
# text = Ben in Colorado steps on a rake and the handle hits his nose.
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	steps	step	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rake	rake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | present | Ben in Colorado |  |  | a rake |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rake=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hit** | present | the handle | handle's nose |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nose=Co-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:* How could it have been avoided?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t8:2
# text = How could it have been avoided?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | could · perfect · passive |  | nose |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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By raking faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t8:o1:1
# text = By raking faster
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	raking	rake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rake** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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

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By laying the rake teeth down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t8:o2:1
# text = By laying the rake teeth down
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	rake	rake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | gerund |  | the rake teeth |  |  |  | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By wearing gardening gloves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t8:o3:1
# text = By wearing gardening gloves
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	gardening	gardening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | gerund |  | gardening gloves |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent glove=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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By using a longer rake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:115-fire-candles-and-garden-tools:t8:o4:1
# text = By using a longer rake
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	rake	rake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund |  | a longer rake |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rake=Patient |

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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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