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title: A friend at a sleepover opens the bathroom door without knocking. Wh… — Being kind to yourself, money, screens… · tree and pragmatics
description: A friend at a sleepover opens the bathroom door without knocking. What is the polite rule? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 293 «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 5 · ★ · Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play

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A friend at a sleepover opens the bathroom door without knocking. What is the polite rule?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, polite rule · **What happens:** open, knock, be · **To what, where:** bathroom door

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 293 «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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/293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A friend at a sleepover opens the bathroom door without knocking.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t5:1
# text = A friend at a sleepover opens the bathroom door without knocking.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | a friend at a sleepover | the bathroom door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 2 | **knock** | gerund | a friend at a sleepover *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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 is the polite rule?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t5:2
# text = What is the polite rule?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the polite rule |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Wait outside for a moment and then open it anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t5:o1:1
# text = Wait outside for a moment and then open it anyway
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | moment | outside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  | then | anyway *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Knock, because bathroom time is private

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t5:o2:1
# text = Knock, because bathroom time is private
1	Knock	knock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | bathroom time |  |  |  |  | private *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Shout through the door instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t5:o3:1
# text = Shout through the door instead
1	Shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the door |  | instead *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Just walk in if the light is on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t5:o4:1
# text = Just walk in if the light is on
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk in** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the light |  |  |  |  | on *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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