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title: bus wobbling, how do i not fall over standing — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics
description: bus wobbling, how do i not fall over standing Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2 «Balance and falling well» 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 11 · ★ · Balance and falling well

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bus wobbling, how do i not fall over standing

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** i · **What happens:** not fall over, stand

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2 «Balance and falling well» 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/2-balance-and-falling-well/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t11:1
# text = bus wobbling, how do i not fall over standing
1	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	wobbling	wobbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fall over** | present · do-support | i |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | i *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Feet apart, knees a bit bent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t11:o1:1
# text = Feet apart, knees a bit bent
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | participle | knees *not said here* | a bit |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Feet together, legs stiff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t11:o2:1
# text = Feet together, legs stiff
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stand on tiptoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t11:o3:1
# text = Stand on tiptoe
1	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | tiptoe |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tiptoe=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Close your eyes and hold still

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t11:o4:1
# text = Close your eyes and hold still
1	Close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* | your eyes |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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