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title: Ascertain the place where a remote-control car may properly be driven. — Safe toys for you and little ones · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the place where a remote-control car may properly be driven. Exam question 4 of lesson 241 «Safe toys for you and little ones» 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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# Exam question 4 · Safe toys for you and little ones

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Ascertain the place where a remote-control car may properly be driven.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, drive · **To what, where:** place, control car

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 241 «Safe toys for you and little ones» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/241-safe-toys/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:241-safe-toys:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the place where a remote-control car may properly be driven.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the place |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 2 | **drive** | may · passive |  | a control car |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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On the pavement beside a busy road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:241-safe-toys:e4:o1:1
# text = On the pavement beside a busy road
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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In the street when traffic is light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:241-safe-toys:e4:o2:1
# text = In the street when traffic is light
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | traffic light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a car park among moving cars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:241-safe-toys:e4:o3:1
# text = In a car park among moving cars
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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In a yard, park or quiet path, never in the street

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:241-safe-toys:e4:o4:1
# text = In a yard, park or quiet path, never in the street
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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