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title: Why do schools make children stop playing as soon as the bell rings? — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do schools make children stop playing as soon as the bell rings? Test 2 · ★ 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 2 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

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Why do schools make children stop playing as soon as the bell rings?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** schools, children, bell · **What happens:** make, stop, play, ring · **To what, where:** children

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t2:1
# text = Why do schools make children stop playing as soon as the bell rings?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · do-support | schools | children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | infinitive | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ring** | present | the bell |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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So lessons can start on time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t2:o1:1
# text = So lessons can start on time
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | can | lessons |  |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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So the teachers can play instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t2:o2:1
# text = So the teachers can play instead
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | can | the teachers |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Because the playground closes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t2:o3:1
# text = Because the playground closes
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	closes	close	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | present | the playground |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Because running after a bell is dangerous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t2:o4:1
# text = Because running after a bell is dangerous
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  | after a bell |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | running |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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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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