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title: Two children share one trumpet in a lesson. What keeps them from pas… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics
description: Two children share one trumpet in a lesson. What keeps them from passing germs? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball games» 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 4 · ★ · Music practice and ball games

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Two children share one trumpet in a lesson. What keeps them from passing germs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Two children · **What happens:** share, keep, pass · **To what, where:** one trumpet, lesson, children, germs

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball games» 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/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Two children share one trumpet in a lesson.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:t4:1
# text = Two children share one trumpet in a lesson.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present | Two children | one trumpet |  | a lesson |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What keeps them from passing germs?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:t4:2
# text = What keeps them from passing germs?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | gerund |  | germs |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme germ=Trajectory |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Blowing much harder into it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:t4:o1:1
# text = Blowing much harder into it
1	Blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | gerund |  |  |  | it |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into it=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Holding the trumpet with gloves on the whole time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:t4:o2:1
# text = Holding the trumpet with gloves on the whole time
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund |  | the trumpet |  |  | time | with gloves | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trumpet=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Playing only quiet notes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:t4:o3:1
# text = Playing only quiet notes
1	Playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund |  | quiet notes |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme |

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

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Cleaning the mouthpiece between players

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety:t4:o4:1
# text = Cleaning the mouthpiece between players
1	Cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mouthpiece	mouthpiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | gerund |  | the mouthpiece |  |  |  | between players | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouthpiece=Patient |

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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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