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title: A boy in Canberra forgot to check his timetable and has no swimming… — Getting ready for school and the schoo… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Canberra forgot to check his timetable and has no swimming kit on swimming day. What habit would help? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 253 «Getting ready for school and the school day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Getting ready for school and the school day

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A boy in Canberra forgot to check his timetable and has no swimming kit on swimming day. What habit would help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy, swimming kit · **What happens:** forget, not check, have, swim, help · **To what, where:** timetable, swimming kit

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 253 «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Canberra forgot to check his timetable and has no swimming kit on swimming day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day:t2:1
# text = A boy in Canberra forgot to check his timetable and has no swimming kit on swimming day.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	timetable	timetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
13	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	kit	kit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | a boy in Canberra |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **check** | to-infinitive | a boy in Canberra *not said here* | boy's timetable |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timetable=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | a boy in Canberra *not said here* | no swimming kit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kit=Patient |
| 4 | **swim** | gerund | no swimming kit *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* What habit would help?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day:t2:2
# text = What habit would help?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Bringing every kit every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day:t2:o1:1
# text = Bringing every kit every day
1	Bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	kit	kit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | gerund |  | every kit |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent kit=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Never doing swimming again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day:t2:o2:1
# text = Never doing swimming again
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Checking the timetable the night before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day:t2:o3:1
# text = Checking the timetable the night before
1	Checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	timetable	timetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	before	before	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | gerund |  | the timetable |  |  | night | before *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timetable=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Asking the teacher to cancel swimming for the whole class

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day:t2:o4:1
# text = Asking the teacher to cancel swimming for the whole class
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cancel	cancel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  | the teacher |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cancel** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the whole class | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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