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title: Select the response consistent with established practice in sledding. — Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with established practice in sledding. Exam question 3 of lesson 250 «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» 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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# Exam question 3 · Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing

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Select the response consistent with established practice in sledding.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select, establish · **To what, where:** response

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 250 «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» 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/250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:e3:1
# text = Select the response consistent with established practice in sledding.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sledding	sledding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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Sledding after dark on any hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:e3:o1:1
# text = Sledding after dark on any hill
1	Sledding	sled	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sled** | gerund |  |  |  | any hill | after dark |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sledding down towards a frozen pond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:e3:o2:1
# text = Sledding down towards a frozen pond
1	Sledding	sled	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sled down** | gerund |  |  |  | a frozen pond |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards pond=Trajectory |
| 2 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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Sitting up, feet first, on a hill away from roads, trees and ponds

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:e3:o3:1
# text = Sitting up, feet first, on a hill away from roads, trees and ponds
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit up** | gerund |  | feet |  | a hill |  | from roads and trees and ponds; first *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lying head first towards a road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:e3:o4:1
# text = Lying head first towards a road
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  | head |  |  |  | towards a road; first *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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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