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title: kids opened the fire hydrant to play in the water — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics
description: kids opened the fire hydrant to play in the water Test 16 · ★ of lesson 274 «Helpers in town and building sites» 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 16 · ★ · Helpers in town and building sites

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kids opened the fire hydrant to play in the water

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kids · **What happens:** open, play · **To what, where:** fire hydrant, water

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This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 274 «Helpers in town and building sites» 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/274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:t16:1
# text = kids opened the fire hydrant to play in the water
1	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hydrant	hydrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | kids | the fire hydrant |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hydrant=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | kids *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP 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 {#o1}

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It's fine if you close it later, once everyone has cooled down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:t16:o1:1
# text = It's fine if you close it later, once everyone has cooled down
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	cooled	cool	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **close** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | it |  |  |  | late *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **cool down** | present · perfect · passive |  | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It's fine if no fire is nearby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:t16:o2:1
# text = It's fine if no fire is nearby
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | no fire |  |  |  |  | nearby *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It can lower water pressure firefighters need

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:t16:o3:1
# text = It can lower water pressure firefighters need
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lower	lower	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lower** | can | It | pressure firefighters |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firefighter=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It's fine in a heatwave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:t16:o4:1
# text = It's fine in a heatwave
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heatwave	heatwave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | a heatwave |  | fine *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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