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title: Why do fire safety lessons say to get out first and phone afterwards? — Smells that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do fire safety lessons say to get out first and phone afterwards? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 13 «Smells 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Smells that warn

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Why do fire safety lessons say to get out first and phone afterwards?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** safety lessons · **What happens:** do, say, get out · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 13 «Smells 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/13-smells-that-warn/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t8:1
# text = Why do fire safety lessons say to get out first and phone afterwards?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | safety lessons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | safety lessons |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get out** | to-infinitive | safety lessons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afterwards, first, out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Calls from inside go to the wrong place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t8:o1:1
# text = Calls from inside go to the wrong place
1	Calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | Calls |  |  | the wrong place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from inside=Initial\_Location to place=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The fire stops while you are on the phone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t8:o2:1
# text = The fire stops while you are on the phone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | the fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  | the phone |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Phones only work outdoors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t8:o3:1
# text = Phones only work outdoors
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Phones |  |  |  |  | outdoors *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Staying in to call wastes precious time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:13-smells-that-warn:t8:o4:1
# text = Staying in to call wastes precious time
1	Staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	wastes	waste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	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 | **stay in** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | to-infinitive |  | wastes |  |  | time |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent waste=Recipient |

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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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