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title: Which is the safe way to walk across a classroom with scissors? — Balconies, blades, batteries and stran… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is the safe way to walk across a classroom with scissors? Test 3 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Balconies, blades, batteries and strange bottles

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Which is the safe way to walk across a classroom with scissors?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, walk · **To what, where:** safe way, classroom

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t3:1
# text = Which is the safe way to walk across a classroom with scissors?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the safe way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a classroom |  | with scissors | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across classroom=Trajectory |

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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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Spinning them on a finger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t3:o1:1
# text = Spinning them on a finger
1	Spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  | a finger |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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

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Closed, with the points down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t3:o2:1
# text = Closed, with the points down
1	Closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the points | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with point=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Points up, near your face

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t3:o3:1
# text = Points up, near your face
1	Points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point up** | present |  |  |  | your face |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Open, pointing forward so people see them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:218-balconies-blades-batteries-and-bottles:t3:o4:1
# text = Open, pointing forward so people see them
1	Open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | present | people | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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