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description: A family notices black spots on the bathroom ceiling. What is the likely cause and fix? Test 9 · ★ 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Scissors, toddlers, medicines, fire and damp at home

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A family notices black spots on the bathroom ceiling. What is the likely cause and fix?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family · **What happens:** notice, be, fix · **To what, where:** black spots, bathroom ceiling, likely cause

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A family notices black spots on the bathroom ceiling.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t9:1
# text = A family notices black spots on the bathroom ceiling.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	notices	notice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | present | a family | black spots |  | the bathroom ceiling |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus |

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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 likely cause and fix?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t9:2
# text = What is the likely cause and fix?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the likely cause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Dirt from shoes; mop the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t9:o1:1
# text = Dirt from shoes; mop the floor
1	Dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mop	mop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mop** | infinitive | Dirt from shoes | the floor |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent floor=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Smoke from the lights; switch them off for a few days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t9:o2:1
# text = Smoke from the lights; switch them off for a few days
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	switch	switch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **switch off** | infinitive | Smoke from the lights | lights *= light* |  |  | day |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ink from the towels; wash them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t9:o3:1
# text = Ink from the towels; wash them
1	Ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	towels	towel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | infinitive | Ink from the towels | towels *= towel* |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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

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Mould from damp; use the fan and air the room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp:t9:o4:1
# text = Mould from damp; use the fan and air the room
1	Mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | infinitive | Mould from damp | the fan and air |  |  |  |  | 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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