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title: A girl hears a beep but cannot tell if it is in front of her or behi… — Thinking about noticing · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl hears a beep but cannot tell if it is in front of her or behind her. What should she do? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Thinking about noticing» 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 6 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

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A girl hears a beep but cannot tell if it is in front of her or behind her. What should she do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girl, beep · **What happens:** hear, not tell, be, do · **To what, where:** beep, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Thinking about noticing» 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/20-noticing-like-a-cat/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl hears a beep but cannot tell if it is in front of her or behind her.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:20-noticing-like-a-cat:t6:1
# text = A girl hears a beep but cannot tell if it is in front of her or behind her.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beep	beep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | a girl | a beep |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beep=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | beep |  |  | front |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should she do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:20-noticing-like-a-cat:t6:2
# text = What should she do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Stand perfectly still and wait for it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:20-noticing-like-a-cat:t6:o1:1
# text = Stand perfectly still and wait for it
1	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	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* |  |  |  | still | perfectly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for it | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shut her eyes as tightly as she can

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:20-noticing-like-a-cat:t6:o2:1
# text = Shut her eyes as tightly as she can
1	Shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cover both ears at the same time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:20-noticing-like-a-cat:t6:o3:1
# text = Cover both ears at the same time
1	Cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | imperative | you *not said here* | both ears |  |  | time |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ear=Destination |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Turn her head and listen again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:20-noticing-like-a-cat:t6:o4:1
# text = Turn her head and listen again
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | her head |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **listen** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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