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title: Why might your teacher and parents meet at a conference? — Teachers, visitors and the playground · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might your teacher and parents meet at a conference? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

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Why might your teacher and parents meet at a conference?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** teacher · **What happens:** meet · **To what, where:** conference

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t7:1
# text = Why might your teacher and parents meet at a conference?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	conference	conference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | might | your teacher and parents |  |  | a conference |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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To plan the school holidays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t7:o1:1
# text = To plan the school holidays
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	plan	plan	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | to-infinitive |  | the school holidays |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To swap recipes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t7:o2:1
# text = To swap recipes
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	swap	swap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	recipes	recipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swap** | to-infinitive |  | recipes |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recipe=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To decide on your birthday present

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t7:o3:1
# text = To decide on your birthday present
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	decide	decide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | on your birthday present | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on present=Topic |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To work together to help you learn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:257-school-adults-and-the-playground:t7:o4:1
# text = To work together to help you learn
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work together** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **learn** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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