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title: dared to jump off the top of the climbing frame — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: dared to jump off the top of the climbing frame Test 15 · ★ of lesson 257 «Teachers, visitors 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; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 15 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

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dared to jump off the top of the climbing frame

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** dare, jump off · **To what, where:** top

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This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 257 «Teachers, visitors 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/257-school-adults-and-the-playground/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t15:1
# text = dared to jump off the top of the climbing frame
1	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	climbing	climbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **jump off** | to-infinitive |  | the top of the climbing frame |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme top=Trajectory |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Say no and climb down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t15:o1:1
# text = Say no and climb down
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	1	discourse	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **climb down** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Jump, it's not that high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t15:o2:1
# text = Jump, it's not that high
1	Jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | high, that *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Jump onto the bark chips, they're soft

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t15:o3:1
# text = Jump onto the bark chips, they're soft
1	Jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the bark chips |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto chip=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | chips *= chip* |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Jump holding a friend's hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t15:o4:1
# text = Jump holding a friend's hand
1	Jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | you *not said here* | a friend's hand |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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