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title: Why should you stay away from big machines on a building site? — Helpers in town and building sites · tree and pragmatics
description: Why should you stay away from big machines on a building site? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Helpers in town and building sites

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Why should you stay away from big machines on a building site?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stay away · **To what, where:** big machines

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:t6:1
# text = Why should you stay away from big machines on a building site?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay away** | should | you |  |  | big machines |  | on a building site; away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on site=Location |

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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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The machines are too noisy for your ears to bear for long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:t6:o1:1
# text = The machines are too noisy for your ears to bear for long
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the machines |  |  |  |  | for your ears; noisy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive | the machines *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The machines are very slow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:t6:o2:1
# text = The machines are very slow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The drivers often cannot see children nearby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:t6:o3:1
# text = The drivers often cannot see children nearby
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | the drivers | children |  |  |  | nearby, often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Workers like to be alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites:t6:o4:1
# text = Workers like to be alone
1	Workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | Workers |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Workers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *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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