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title: Why are children hit so often when they step out between parked cars? — Walking on the pavement and crossing r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why are children hit so often when they step out between parked cars? Test 17 · ★ 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 17 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

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Why are children hit so often when they step out between parked cars?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** hit, step out, park · **To what, where:** children, parked cars

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This is test 17 · ★ 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/#t17).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t17:1
# text = Why are children hit so often when they step out between parked cars?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	step	step	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | present · passive |  | children |  |  |  | often *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **step out** | present | children *= child* |  |  | parked cars |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between car=Trajectory |
| 3 | **park** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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Children are always seen there, as drivers look out for them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t17:o1:1
# text = Children are always seen there, as drivers look out for them
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · passive |  | Children |  | there |  | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look out** | present | drivers |  |  |  |  | for Children *= child* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Parked cars make roads wider

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t17:o2:1
# text = Parked cars make roads wider
1	Parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **park** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | Parked cars | roads |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material road=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Drivers go faster near parked cars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t17:o3:1
# text = Drivers go faster near parked cars
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Drivers |  |  | parked cars |  | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near car=Location |
| 2 | **park** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Drivers cannot see them until it is too late

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads:t17:o4:1
# text = Drivers cannot see them until it is too late
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | Drivers | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |

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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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