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title: shoes were outside all night in arizona, just put em on? — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics
description: shoes were outside all night in arizona, just put em on? Test 16 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» 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 16 · ★★ · Snakes, spiders and scorpions

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shoes were outside all night in arizona, just put em on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** shoes · **What happens:** be, put on · **To what, where:** night, arizona, em

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This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» 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/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions:t16:1
# text = shoes were outside all night in arizona, just put em on?
1	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	arizona	arizona	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | shoes | all night |  | arizona |  | outside *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put on** | infinitive |  | em *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |

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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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Wear them with thick socks instead, so nothing can bite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions:t16:o1:1
# text = Wear them with thick socks instead, so nothing can bite
1	Wear	wear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | with thick socks; instead *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 2 | **bite** | can | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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

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Shake them out first, a scorpion may be inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions:t16:o2:1
# text = Shake them out first, a scorpion may be inside
1	Shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake out** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | may |  |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Put them on quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions:t16:o3:1
# text = Put them on quickly
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put on** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only check if they smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions:t16:o4:1
# text = Only check if they smell
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smell** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=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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