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title: Your teacher asks you to hand her the scissors. Which is right? — Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your teacher asks you to hand her the scissors. Which is right? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 295 «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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 1 · ★ · Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home

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Your teacher asks you to hand her the scissors. Which is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** teacher · **What happens:** ask, hand, be · **To what, where:** you, scissors, teacher

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 295 «Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home» 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/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your teacher asks you to hand her the scissors.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t1:1
# text = Your teacher asks you to hand her the scissors.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Your teacher |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Your teacher *not said here* | the scissors | teacher |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination scissors=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which is right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t1:2
# text = Which is right?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Open them so she can cut straight away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t1:o1:1
# text = Open them so she can cut straight away
1	Open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | can | she |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Toss them gently onto her desk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t1:o2:1
# text = Toss them gently onto her desk
1	Toss	toss	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  | her desk |  | gently *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Patient onto desk=Recipient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Point the blades towards her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t1:o3:1
# text = Point the blades towards her
1	Point	point	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | imperative | you *not said here* | the blades |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Close them and hold out the handles to her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t1:o4:1
# text = Close them and hold out the handles to her
1	Close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	handles	handle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **hold out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the handles | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=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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