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title: A girl in Toronto is playing catch near the road and the ball bounce… — Walking on the pavement and crossing r… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Toronto is playing catch near the road and the ball bounces into the street. What should she have done? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 266 «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 1 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

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A girl in Toronto is playing catch near the road and the ball bounces into the street. What should she have done?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl, catch · **What happens:** play, bounce, do · **To what, where:** street

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 266 «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» 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/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in Toronto is playing catch near the road and the ball bounces into the street.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t1:1
# text = A girl in Toronto is playing catch near the road and the ball bounces into the street.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	bounces	bounce	VERB	VBZ	Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · progressive | a girl in Toronto |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bounce** | present | catch near the road and the ball |  |  | the street |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into street=Destination |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should she have done?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t1:2
# text = What should she have done?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should · perfect | catch |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Played with a smaller ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t1:o1:1
# text = Played with a smaller ball
1	Played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with a smaller ball | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ball=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thrown the ball more gently on the sidewalk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t1:o2:1
# text = Thrown the ball more gently on the sidewalk
1	Thrown	thrown	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sidewalk	sidewalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Run after the ball as quickly as she could, before a car came

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t1:o3:1
# text = Run after the ball as quickly as she could, before a car came
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after the ball | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | a car |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Played in a park or yard, away from the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t1:o4:1
# text = Played in a park or yard, away from the road
1	Played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | participle |  |  |  | a park or yard |  | away *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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