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title: biscuits on the top shelf, gonna stand on the swivel chair — Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and… · tree and pragmatics
description: biscuits on the top shelf, gonna stand on the swivel chair Test 12 · ★ of lesson 217 «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» 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 12 · ★ · Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors

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biscuits on the top shelf, gonna stand on the swivel chair

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** biscuits · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** swivel chair

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 217 «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» 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/217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors:t12:1
# text = biscuits on the top shelf, gonna stand on the swivel chair
1	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	dep	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	swivel	swivel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | infinitive | biscuits on the top shelf |  |  | the swivel chair |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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Stack two chairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors:t12:o1:1
# text = Stack two chairs
1	Stack	stack	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stack** | imperative | you *not said here* | two chairs |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chair=Theme |

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

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Use a steady step stool or ask someone tall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors:t12:o2:1
# text = Use a steady step stool or ask someone tall
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | a steady step stool |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stool=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | someone |  |  | tall *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Climb up the counter edge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors:t12:o3:1
# text = Climb up the counter edge
1	Climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	counter	counter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the counter edge |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location edge=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The swivel chair is fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:217-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-doors:t12:o4:1
# text = The swivel chair is fine
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	swivel	swivel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fine	fine	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 | the swivel chair |  |  |  |  | fine *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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