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title: A girl wants to run up the down escalator in the mall for fun. What… — Shops, restaurants and libraries · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl wants to run up the down escalator in the mall for fun. What could happen? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 273 «Shops, restaurants and libraries» 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 8 · ★ · Shops, restaurants and libraries

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A girl wants to run up the down escalator in the mall for fun. What could happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** want, run up, happen · **To what, where:** down escalator, mall

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 273 «Shops, restaurants and libraries» 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/273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl wants to run up the down escalator in the mall for fun.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries:t8:1
# text = A girl wants to run up the down escalator in the mall for fun.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	down	down	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	escalator	escalator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mall	mall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | a girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **run up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a girl *not said here* | the down escalator |  | the mall for fun |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent escalator=Theme in mall=Trajectory |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What could happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries:t8:2
# text = What could happen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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She could fall and knock into others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries:t8:o1:1
# text = She could fall and knock into others
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | could | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **knock** | infinitive | She *not said here* |  |  | others |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into other=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, because escalators are slow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries:t8:o2:1
# text = Nothing, because escalators are slow
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	escalators	escalator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | escalators |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She will get there faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries:t8:o3:1
# text = She will get there faster
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | future | She |  |  | there |  | fast *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The escalator will go the other way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries:t8:o4:1
# text = The escalator will go the other way
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	escalator	escalator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | future | the escalator | the other way |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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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