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title: On a hot August day in Florida, a boy sits straight down on a black… — Running games and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: On a hot August day in Florida, a boy sits straight down on a black plastic slide in full sun. What might happen? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 247 «Running games and the playground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 9 · ★ · Running games and the playground

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On a hot August day in Florida, a boy sits straight down on a black plastic slide in full sun. What might happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, full sun. · **What happens:** sit, happen · **To what, where:** black plastic slide

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 247 «Running games and the playground» 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/247-running-games-and-playground/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:247-running-games-and-playground:t9:1
# text = On a hot August day in Florida, a boy sits straight down on a black plastic slide in full sun. What might happen?
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | a boy |  |  | a black plastic slide in full sun. | day | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on slide=Location |
| 2 | **happen** | might | full sun. |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nothing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:247-running-games-and-playground:t9:o1:1
# text = Nothing at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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He would slide too slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:247-running-games-and-playground:t9:o2:1
# text = He would slide too slowly
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	slide	slide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide** | would | He |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The slide would feel cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:247-running-games-and-playground:t9:o3:1
# text = The slide would feel cold
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | would | the slide |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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

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He could burn his legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:247-running-games-and-playground:t9:o4:1
# text = He could burn his legs
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | could | He | his legs |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |

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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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