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title: Before going to a big sports match, what is it smart for a family to… — What to do if you are lost · tree and pragmatics
description: Before going to a big sports match, what is it smart for a family to agree on? Test 8 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★★ · What to do if you are lost

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Before going to a big sports match, what is it smart for a family to agree on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big sports · **What happens:** go, match, be, agree

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:17-if-you-are-lost:t8:1
# text = Before going to a big sports match, what is it smart for a family to agree on?
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	match	match	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	expl	_	_
12	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **match** | present | a big sports |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for a family; smart *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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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Which team they will cheer for loudest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:17-if-you-are-lost:t8:o1:1
# text = Which team they will cheer for loudest
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cheer	cheer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheer** | future | which team |  |  |  |  | for loudest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What time they will buy their drinks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:17-if-you-are-lost:t8:o2:1
# text = What time they will buy their drinks
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | future | they | their drinks |  |  | time |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Who will carry the snacks and drinks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:17-if-you-are-lost:t8:o3:1
# text = Who will carry the snacks and drinks
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	snacks	snack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | future |  | the snacks and drinks |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snack=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A meeting place in case they get separated

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:17-if-you-are-lost:t8:o4:1
# text = A meeting place in case they get separated
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | present · passive |  | they |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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