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title: Which visitor at the door could be a scam? — Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which visitor at the door could be a scam? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 219 «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom» 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 6 · ★ · Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom

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Which visitor at the door could be a scam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** visitor · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** scam

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 219 «Fire, fireworks, garden dangers and the bathroom» 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/219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom:t6:1
# text = Which visitor at the door could be a scam?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	scam	scam	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 | **is a** | could | which visitor at the door | a scam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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A postman with your parcel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom:t6:o1:1
# text = A postman with your parcel
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	postman	postman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	parcel	parcel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Your grandma bringing round a cake she baked for you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom:t6:o2:1
# text = Your grandma bringing round a cake she baked for you
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	baked	bake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | gerund | Your grandma *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round a cake | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bake** | past | Your grandma |  |  |  |  | for you | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A neighbour returning your ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom:t6:o3:1
# text = A neighbour returning your ball
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund | a neighbour *not said here* | your ball |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A stranger selling things you did not ask for

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:219-fire-fireworks-tools-and-the-bathroom:t6:o4:1
# text = A stranger selling things you did not ask for
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund | a stranger *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support | you | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient |

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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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