--- title: On Anzac Day in Canberra, a crowd falls silent. What should a child… — Quiet places and solemn moments · tree and pragmatics description: On Anzac Day in Canberra, a crowd falls silent. What should a child do? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 224 «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Quiet places and solemn moments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Quiet places and solemn moments On Anzac Day in Canberra, a crowd falls silent. What should a child do? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** crowd, child · **What happens:** fall, do This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 224 «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* On Anzac Day in Canberra, a crowd falls silent. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t9:1 # text = On Anzac Day in Canberra, a crowd falls silent. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 Anzac Anzac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Canberra Canberra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | present | a crowd | | | | on Anzac Day in Canberra | silent *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on day=Location | 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. *Sentence 2:* What should a child do? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t9:2 # text = What should a child do? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | should | a child | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Stand still and stay silent too ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t9:o1:1 # text = Stand still and stay silent too 1 Stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 stay stay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Wave at the soldiers ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t9:o2:1 # text = Wave at the soldiers 1 Wave wave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wave** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | the soldiers | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at soldier=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} Ask his dad questions ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t9:o3:1 # text = Ask his dad questions 1 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | his dad questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 2 | **question** | | his *= he* | | | | | | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Keep playing quietly on the grass nearby ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t9:o4:1 # text = Keep playing quietly on the grass nearby 1 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 3 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **play** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | the grass | | quietly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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. 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