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title: A girl in Texas finds ants in her bed. What most likely brought them? — Bedroom, living room and manners at home · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Texas finds ants in her bed. What most likely brought them? Test 2 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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 right.
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# Test 2 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

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A girl in Texas finds ants in her bed. What most likely brought them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** find, bring · **To what, where:** ants, bed

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This is test 2 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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/119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in Texas finds ants in her bed.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:t2:1
# text = A girl in Texas finds ants in her bed.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | a girl in Texas | ants |  | girl's bed |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Topic |

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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 most likely brought them?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:t2:2
# text = What most likely brought them?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past |  | ants *= ant* |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme they=Destination |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A clean pillowcase on her pillow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:t2:o1:1
# text = A clean pillowcase on her pillow
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pillowcase	pillowcase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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An open window left open all winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:t2:o2:1
# text = An open window left open all winter
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | a open window *not said here* |  |  | winter | open *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Crumbs from eating in bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:t2:o3:1
# text = Crumbs from eating in bed
1	Crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund | Crumbs *not said here* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Her school books on the shelf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:119-bedroom-living-room-and-manners:t2:o4:1
# text = Her school books on the shelf
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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