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title: A family reaches a giant fallen tree across the trail. Which choice… — Hiking and camping safely · tree and pragmatics
description: A family reaches a giant fallen tree across the trail. Which choice is safest? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 230 «Hiking and camping safely» 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 · ★★ · Hiking and camping safely

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A family reaches a giant fallen tree across the trail. Which choice is safest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** family, choice · **What happens:** reach, fall, be · **To what, where:** giant fallen tree, trail

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 230 «Hiking and camping safely» 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/230-hiking-and-camping/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A family reaches a giant fallen tree across the trail.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:230-hiking-and-camping:t3:1
# text = A family reaches a giant fallen tree across the trail.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | present | a family | a giant fallen tree |  | the trail |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which choice is safest?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:230-hiking-and-camping:t3:2
# text = Which choice is safest?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which choice |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Climb over the slippery trunk one by one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:230-hiking-and-camping:t3:o1:1
# text = Climb over the slippery trunk one by one
1	Climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | imperative | you *not said here* | one by one |  | the slippery trunk |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over trunk=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Push the tree off the path together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:230-hiking-and-camping:t3:o2:1
# text = Push the tree off the path together
1	Push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | imperative | you *not said here* | the tree |  | the path |  | together *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tree=Theme off path=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Find a safe way round or turn back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:230-hiking-and-camping:t3:o3:1
# text = Find a safe way round or turn back
1	Find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | a safe way |  |  |  | round *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 2 | **turn back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Crawl underneath the trunk on your tummy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:230-hiking-and-camping:t3:o4:1
# text = Crawl underneath the trunk on your tummy
1	Crawl	crawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	underneath	underneath	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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