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title: home alone, starving, can i fry eggs — Home alone, keys and garden play · tree and pragmatics
description: home alone, starving, can i fry eggs Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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 12 · ★★ · Home alone, keys and garden play

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home alone, starving, can i fry eggs

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** home · **What happens:** starve, fry · **To what, where:** eggs

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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/116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:t12:1
# text = home alone, starving, can i fry eggs
1	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fry	fry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | gerund | home *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fry** | can | home | eggs |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Patient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, just leave the hob on low

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:t12:o1:1
# text = Yes, just leave the hob on low
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hob	hob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | the hob |  | low |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hob=Theme on low=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Eat a cold snack unless you're allowed to cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:t12:o2:1
# text = Eat a cold snack unless you're allowed to cook
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | a cold snack |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Patient |
| 2 | **allow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cook** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, cook whatever you like

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:t12:o3:1
# text = Yes, cook whatever you like
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cook	cook	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** | present | you | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Use the oven instead, that's safer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play:t12:o4:1
# text = Use the oven instead, that's safer
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | the oven |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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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