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title: Why should children learn their address by heart? — What to do if you are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: Why should children learn their address by heart? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 17 «What to do if you are lost» 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 5 · ★★ · What to do if you are lost

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Why should children learn their address by heart?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** learn, address · **To what, where:** address

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 17 «What to do if you are lost» 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/17-if-you-are-lost/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:17-if-you-are-lost:t5:1
# text = Why should children learn their address by heart?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | should | children | children's address |  |  |  | by heart | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Topic |
| 2 | **address** |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=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 {#o1}

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It helps them win quizzes at school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:17-if-you-are-lost:t5:o1:1
# text = It helps them win quizzes at school
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	quizzes	quiz	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | It | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **win** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* | quizzes |  | school |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent quiz=Theme at school=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You must say it to get into a shop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:17-if-you-are-lost:t5:o2:1
# text = You must say it to get into a shop
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | must | You | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  | a shop |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into shop=Destination |

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

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A helper can get them home or call their family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:17-if-you-are-lost:t5:o3:1
# text = A helper can get them home or call their family
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	helper	helper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | can | a helper | them *= they* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | a helper *not said here* | their family |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Strangers like to know where children live, so it is polite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:17-if-you-are-lost:t5:o4:1
# text = Strangers like to know where children live, so it is polite
1	Strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	expl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | Strangers |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Strangers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **live** | present | children |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | Strangers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | polite *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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