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title: A boy keeps putting his shoes on before his trousers. What is the qu… — Sharing, sleep and safe food · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy keeps putting his shoes on before his trousers. What is the quicker order? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 209 «Sharing, sleep and safe food» 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 9 · ★ · Sharing, sleep and safe food

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A boy keeps putting his shoes on before his trousers. What is the quicker order?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, quicker order · **What happens:** keep, put, be · **To what, where:** shoes, trousers

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 209 «Sharing, sleep and safe food» 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/209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy keeps putting his shoes on before his trousers.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food:t9:1
# text = A boy keeps putting his shoes on before his trousers.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | a boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | gerund | a boy *not said here* | boy's shoes |  | boy's trousers |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme on trousers=Destination |

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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 is the quicker order?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food:t9:2
# text = What is the quicker order?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the quicker order |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Socks, shoes, then underwear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food:t9:o1:1
# text = Socks, shoes, then underwear
1	Socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	underwear	underwear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Underwear, clothes, then socks and shoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food:t9:o2:1
# text = Underwear, clothes, then socks and shoes
1	Underwear	underwear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Shoes first, then pull the trousers on over them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food:t9:o3:1
# text = Shoes first, then pull the trousers on over them
1	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | infinitive | Shoes | the trousers |  |  | then | over trousers; first *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trousers=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Any order is just as quick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food:t9:o4:1
# text = Any order is just as quick
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | any order |  |  |  |  | quick *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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