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title: train door closing n mum's still on the platform!! — Trains, the Underground and subways · tree and pragmatics
description: train door closing n mum's still on the platform!! Test 12 · ★ of lesson 270 «Trains, the Underground and subways» 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 · ★ · Trains, the Underground and subways

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train door closing n mum's still on the platform!!

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** train door · **What happens:** close · **To what, where:** platform

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 270 «Trains, the Underground and subways» 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/270-trains-and-subways/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:270-trains-and-subways:t12:1
# text = train door closing n mum's still on the platform!!
1	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	closing	close	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	n	n	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!!	!!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | gerund | train door *not said here* | n's mum's platform |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent platform=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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Get off anywhere and walk home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:270-trains-and-subways:t12:o1:1
# text = Get off anywhere and walk home
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get off** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **walk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pull the doors open

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:270-trains-and-subways:t12:o2:1
# text = Pull the doors open
1	Pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | imperative | you *not said here* | the doors |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Get off at the next station and wait, as you planned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:270-trains-and-subways:t12:o3:1
# text = Get off at the next station and wait, as you planned
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	planned	plan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get off** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the next station |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **plan** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Jump out as it moves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:270-trains-and-subways:t12:o4:1
# text = Jump out as it moves
1	Jump	jump	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	moves	move	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 | **jump out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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