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title: dad's texting while driving 🙄 — In the car: seat belts, car seats and… · tree and pragmatics
description: dad's texting while driving 🙄 Test 13 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 13 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

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dad's texting while driving 🙄

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** texting · **What happens:** drive

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This is test 13 · ★★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t13:1
# text = dad's texting while driving 🙄
1	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	texting	texting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	🙄	🙄	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | gerund | dad's texting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Kindly remind him it's dangerous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t13:o1:1
# text = Kindly remind him it's dangerous
1	Kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	remind	remind	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remind** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | him *= he* |  |  | kindly *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Read the messages to him loudly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t13:o2:1
# text = Read the messages to him loudly
1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
6	loudly	loudly	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* | the messages | him *= he* |  |  | loudly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent message=Topic to he=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Grab the phone off him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t13:o3:1
# text = Grab the phone off him
1	Grab	grab	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | imperative | you *not said here* | the phone |  |  |  | off him *= he* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent phone=Theme off he=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ask him to text faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t13:o4:1
# text = Ask him to text faster
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	text	text	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **text** *not said to happen* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *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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