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title: Why is a quiet electric scooter especially risky for a walker starin… — Thinking about noticing · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is a quiet electric scooter especially risky for a walker staring at a phone with headphones on? Test 7 · ★★★ 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 wron
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# Test 7 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

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Why is a quiet electric scooter especially risky for a walker staring at a phone with headphones on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** quiet electric scooter, walker · **What happens:** be, stare

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This is test 7 · ★★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:20-noticing-like-a-cat:t7:1
# text = Why is a quiet electric scooter especially risky for a walker staring at a phone with headphones on?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	scooter	scooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	risky	risky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	walker	walker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	headphones	headphone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a quiet electric scooter |  |  |  |  | for a walker; especially, risky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stare** | gerund | a walker *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with headphones; at a phone | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme |

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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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Electric scooters have no brakes at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:20-noticing-like-a-cat:t7:o1:1
# text = Electric scooters have no brakes at all
1	Electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	scooters	scooter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	brakes	brake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Electric scooters | no brakes |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brake=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Neither sound nor sight would warn the walker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:20-noticing-like-a-cat:t7:o2:1
# text = Neither sound nor sight would warn the walker
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc	_	_
4	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	walker	walker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | would | neither sound nor sight | the walker |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent walker=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Electric scooters always go faster than cars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:20-noticing-like-a-cat:t7:o3:1
# text = Electric scooters always go faster than cars
1	Electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	scooters	scooter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Electric scooters |  |  |  |  | always, fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Headphones attract electric scooters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:20-noticing-like-a-cat:t7:o4:1
# text = Headphones attract electric scooters
1	Headphones	headphone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	attract	attract	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	scooters	scooter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | present | Headphones | electric scooters |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scooter=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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