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title: Why do many big events give children a wristband to write a phone nu… — Money in town and staying safe in crowds · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do many big events give children a wristband to write a phone number on? Test 8 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Money in town and staying safe in crowds

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Why do many big events give children a wristband to write a phone number on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many big events · **What happens:** give, write · **To what, where:** wristband, children, phone number

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town:t8:1
# text = Why do many big events give children a wristband to write a phone number on?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	iobj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wristband	wristband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · do-support | many big events | a wristband | children |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient wristband=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | to-infinitive | many big events *not said here* | a phone number |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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So staff can reach a parent quickly if a child is lost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town:t8:o1:1
# text = So staff can reach a parent quickly if a child is lost
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | can | staff | a parent |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent parent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | a child |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So children can skip the queue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town:t8:o2:1
# text = So children can skip the queue
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	skip	skip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queue	queue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | can | children | the queue |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queue=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So the event can count how many came

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town:t8:o3:1
# text = So the event can count how many came
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | can | the event |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **come** | past | many |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So children can buy things without money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:276-money-and-crowds-in-town:t8:o4:1
# text = So children can buy things without money
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | can | children | things |  |  |  | without money | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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