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title: Why are cords and hoodie strings dangerous on slides? — Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics
description: Why are cords and hoodie strings dangerous on slides? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 228 «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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 14 · ★ · Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds

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Why are cords and hoodie strings dangerous on slides?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cords · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** slides

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 228 «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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/228-parks-and-playgrounds/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds:t14:1
# text = Why are cords and hoodie strings dangerous on slides?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	slides	slide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | cords and hoodie strings |  |  | slides |  | dangerous *property* | 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 {#o1}

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They get dirty on the slide very quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds:t14:o1:1
# text = They get dirty on the slide very quickly
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | They |  |  | the slide |  | dirty, quickly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on slide=Source |

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

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They can catch and choke a child

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds:t14:o2:1
# text = They can catch and choke a child
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	choke	choke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | can | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **choke** | infinitive | They *not said here* |  | a child |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme child=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They make the child slip off the side

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds:t14:o3:1
# text = They make the child slip off the side
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | They | the child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slip off** | infinitive | the child *not said here* | the side |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent side=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They make the slide much slower for everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds:t14:o4:1
# text = They make the slide much slower for everyone
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | They | the slide |  |  |  | slow *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slide=Product |

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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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