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title: car backing out of the driveway, i'm on the pavement — Walking on the pavement and crossing r… · tree and pragmatics
description: car backing out of the driveway, i'm on the pavement Test 11 · ★ 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 option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

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car backing out of the driveway, i'm on the pavement

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** car, i · **What happens:** back out, be · **To what, where:** driveway, pavement

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t11:1
# text = car backing out of the driveway, i'm on the pavement
1	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	backing	back	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	driveway	driveway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **back out** | gerund | car and the pavement *not said here* | the driveway |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | i |  |  | the pavement |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Wave and keep walking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t11:o1:1
# text = Wave and keep walking
1	Wave	wave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Run past behind it quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t11:o2:1
# text = Run past behind it quickly
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	past	past	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run past** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | it |  | past, quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind it=Trajectory |

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

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Stop and let it pass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t11:o3:1
# text = Stop and let it pass
1	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Knock on the window to say hello

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t11:o4:1
# text = Knock on the window to say hello
1	Knock	knock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	hello	hello	INTJ	UH	_	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the window |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on window=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic |

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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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