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title: dropping water balloons off the balcony on ppl lol — Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer,… · tree and pragmatics
description: dropping water balloons off the balcony on ppl lol Test 13 · ★ of lesson 294 «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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 13 · ★ · Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on b…

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dropping water balloons off the balcony on ppl lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** drop · **To what, where:** water balloons, balcony

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 294 «Safe in the kitchen, near the freezer, with plugs and on balconies» 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/294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies:t13:1
# text = dropping water balloons off the balcony on ppl lol
1	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	balloons	balloon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ppl	people	NOUN	NNS	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
9	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | gerund |  | water balloons |  | the balcony |  | on ppl | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent balloon=Theme off balcony=Destination on people=Initial\_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 {#o1}

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Fine on the ground floor only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies:t13:o1:1
# text = Fine on the ground floor only
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fine if you shout first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies:t13:o2:1
# text = Fine if you shout first
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | you |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fine, water balloons are soft and only make people wet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies:t13:o3:1
# text = Fine, water balloons are soft and only make people wet
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	balloons	balloon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Fine water balloons |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | Fine water balloons *not said here* | people |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Don't, things falling from height can really hurt people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies:t13:o4:1
# text = Don't, things falling from height can really hurt people
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	really	really	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | infinitive | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | things *not said here* |  |  | height |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from height=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hurt** | can | things | people |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient |

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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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