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title: smoke alarm keeps beeping every minute, so annoying, can i take the… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: smoke alarm keeps beeping every minute, so annoying, can i take the battery out Test 14 of lesson 12 «Sounds that warn» 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 14 · Sounds that warn

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smoke alarm keeps beeping every minute, so annoying, can i take the battery out

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** smoke alarm, i · **What happens:** keep, beep, take out · **To what, where:** battery

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This is test 14 of lesson 12 «Sounds that warn» 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/12-sounds-that-warn/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t14:1
# text = smoke alarm keeps beeping every minute, so annoying, can i take the battery out
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	beeping	beep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	annoying	annoying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | smoke alarm |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beep** | gerund | smoke alarm *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take out** | can | i | the battery |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, tell an adult so they can put in a new battery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t14:o1:1
# text = No, tell an adult so they can put in a new battery
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 2 | **put** | can | they |  |  | a new battery |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in battery=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, take it out until morning, then put it back in again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t14:o2:1
# text = Yes, take it out until morning, then put it back in again
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	until	until	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take out** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  | morning |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **put back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  | then; again |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, it is only a test beep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t14:o3:1
# text = Yes, it is only a test beep
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	beep	beep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a test beep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, put a sock over it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:12-sounds-that-warn:t14:o4:1
# text = Yes, put a sock over it
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | a sock |  | sock |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sock=Theme over it=Destination |

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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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