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title: A girl in Vermont sits in the front row but still cannot read the bo… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Vermont sits in the front row but still cannot read the board. What is the likely next step? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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
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# Test 1 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

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A girl in Vermont sits in the front row but still cannot read the board. What is the likely next step?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girl, likely next step · **What happens:** sit, not read, be · **To what, where:** front row, board

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in Vermont sits in the front row but still cannot read the board.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t1:1
# text = A girl in Vermont sits in the front row but still cannot read the board.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Vermont	Vermont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | a girl in Vermont |  |  | the front row |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location |
| 2 | **not** **read** | can | a girl in Vermont *not said here* | the board |  |  | still |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Topic |

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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 likely next step?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t1:2
# text = What is the likely next step?
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	6	det	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	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 likely next step |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Moving to a different school with bigger whiteboards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t1:o1:1
# text = Moving to a different school with bigger whiteboards
1	Moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	whiteboards	whiteboard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  | a different school |  | with bigger whiteboards | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to school=Trajectory |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Telling her parents and having an eye test

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t1:o2:1
# text = Telling her parents and having an eye test
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | her parents |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  | a eye test |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sitting even closer each week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t1:o3:1
# text = Sitting even closer each week
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  |  | week | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Giving up reading

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t1:o4:1
# text = Giving up reading
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | gerund |  | reading |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=Source |

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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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