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title: Why do teachers use a buddy system on trips? — The lunchroom and school trips · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do teachers use a buddy system on trips? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» 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 6 · ★ · The lunchroom and school trips

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Why do teachers use a buddy system on trips?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** teachers · **What happens:** use · **To what, where:** buddy system, trips

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» 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/258-lunchroom-and-school-trips/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t6:1
# text = Why do teachers use a buddy system on trips?
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	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	buddy	buddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · do-support | teachers | a buddy system |  | trips |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Patient |

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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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Buddies must share their lunch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t6:o1:1
# text = Buddies must share their lunch
1	Buddies	buddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | must | Buddies | Buddies's lunch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It makes the coach quieter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t6:o2:1
# text = It makes the coach quieter
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	quieter	quiet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the coach |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material coach=Product |

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

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Nobody can get lost without someone noticing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t6:o3:1
# text = Nobody can get lost without someone noticing
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	get	get	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
7	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | can · passive |  | Nobody |  |  |  | without someone | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **notice** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Buddies carry each other's bags

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips:t6:o4:1
# text = Buddies carry each other's bags
1	Buddies	buddy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | Buddies | each other bags |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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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