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title: crowd pushing like mad at the gate, cant breathe much — Money in town and staying safe in crowds · tree and pragmatics
description: crowd pushing like mad at the gate, cant breathe much Test 14 · ★ of lesson 276 «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» 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 14 · ★ · Money in town and staying safe in crowds

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crowd pushing like mad at the gate, cant breathe much

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** crowd · **What happens:** push, breathe

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 276 «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» 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/276-money-and-crowds-in-town/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town:t14:1
# text = crowd pushing like mad at the gate, cant breathe much
1	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | gerund | crowd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like mad; at the gate and cant | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at gate=Theme |
| 2 | **breathe** | present | crowd |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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 {#o1}

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Push back as hard as you can

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town:t14:o1:1
# text = Push back as hard as you can
1	Push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Move sideways to the edge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town:t14:o2:1
# text = Move sideways to the edge
1	Move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the edge |  | sideways *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to edge=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sit down where you are

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town:t14:o3:1
# text = Sit down where you are
1	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	1	ccomp	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Climb over people to the front

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town:t14:o4:1
# text = Climb over people to the front
1	Climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the front |  | over people | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over people=Initial\_Location to front=Destination |

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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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