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title: parcel came, gonna open it with dads craft knife — Balconies, blades, batteries and stran… · tree and pragmatics
description: parcel came, gonna open it with dads craft knife Test 11 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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 11 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
parcel came, gonna open it with dads craft knife

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** parcel, dads · **What happens:** come, open, craft · **To what, where:** parcel, knife

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 218 «Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles» 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/218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t11:1
# text = parcel came, gonna open it with dads craft knife
1	parcel	parcel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
5	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	dads	dad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	craft	craft	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | parcel |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | infinitive | parcel *not said here* | parcel |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 3 | **craft** | present | dads | knife |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Result |

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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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Yes, use it quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t11:o1:1
# text = Yes, use it quickly
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Let a grown-up open it, the blade slips

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t11:o2:1
# text = Let a grown-up open it, the blade slips
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	slips	slip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **open** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 4 | **slip** | present | the blade |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, cut towards you so you can see it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t11:o3:1
# text = Yes, cut towards you so you can see it
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards you | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards you=Location |
| 2 | **see** | can | you | it |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Use dad's razor instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t11:o4:1
# text = Use dad's razor instead
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	razor	razor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | dad's razor |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent razor=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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