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title: feel carsick, gonna play on my tablet to forget it — In the car: seat belts, car seats and… · tree and pragmatics
description: feel carsick, gonna play on my tablet to forget it Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 268 «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» 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 12 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

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feel carsick, gonna play on my tablet to forget it

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** feel, play, forget · **To what, where:** tablet

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 268 «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» 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/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t12:1
# text = feel carsick, gonna play on my tablet to forget it
1	feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	carsick	carsick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
5	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | carsick *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive |  |  |  | my tablet |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **forget** | to-infinitive |  | tablet |  |  |  |  | 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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Close your eyes and play games

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t12:o1:1
# text = Close your eyes and play games
1	Close	close	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	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* | your eyes |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | you *not said here* | games |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Read a book instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t12:o2:1
# text = Read a book instead
1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | a book |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Look down at your feet till it passes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t12:o3:1
# text = Look down at your feet till it passes
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at your feet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Look out the front at the horizon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t12:o4:1
# text = Look out the front at the horizon
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the front |  | the horizon |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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