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title: missed the last bus, it's dark n i'm alone — Clocks, calendars and planning the day · tree and pragmatics
description: missed the last bus, it's dark n i'm alone Test 17 · ★★ of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» 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 wrong.
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# Test 17 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

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missed the last bus, it's dark n i'm alone

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bus, i · **What happens:** miss, be · **To what, where:** last bus, dark n

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This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the 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/263-clocks-calendars-and-planning/#t17).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t17:1
# text = missed the last bus, it's dark n i'm alone
1	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	n	n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | past |  | the last bus |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | bus | dark n |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | i | dark n *not said here* |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Wait quietly and tell nobody, someone will come by in the end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t17:o1:1
# text = Wait quietly and tell nobody, someone will come by in the end
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | nobody |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient |
| 3 | **come** | future | someone |  |  |  | by the end |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by end=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Walk home alone on the dark road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t17:o2:1
# text = Walk home alone on the dark road
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the dark road |  | alone, home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hitchhike with a stranger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t17:o3:1
# text = Hitchhike with a stranger
1	Hitchhike	hitchhike	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hitchhike** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a stranger | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Call your parent or the emergency number if unsafe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t17:o4:1
# text = Call your parent or the emergency number if unsafe
1	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | your parent or the emergency number |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |

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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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