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description: A boy in Ireland spills hot tea on his hand. How long should it be under cool running water? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 210 «First aid, medicine and the sun» 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 6 · ★★ · First aid, medicine and the sun

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A boy in Ireland spills hot tea on his hand. How long should it be under cool running water?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, tea · **What happens:** spill, run, be · **To what, where:** hot tea, hand, cool running water

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 210 «First aid, medicine and the sun» 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/210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Ireland spills hot tea on his hand.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun:t6:1
# text = A boy in Ireland spills hot tea on his hand.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	spills	spill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	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	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spill** | present | a boy in Ireland | hot tea |  | boy's hand |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=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.

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*Sentence 2:* How long should it be under cool running water?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun:t6:2
# text = How long should it be under cool running water?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | should | tea |  |  | cool running water |  | long *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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About 5 seconds only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun:t6:o1:1
# text = About 5 seconds only
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About 20 minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun:t6:o2:1
# text = About 20 minutes
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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No water, just a cloth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun:t6:o3:1
# text = No water, just a cloth
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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About 1 minute or so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:210-first-aid-medicine-and-sun:t6:o4:1
# text = About 1 minute or so
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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