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title: at the museum, can i touch the old vase — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes… · tree and pragmatics
description: at the museum, can i touch the old vase Test 14 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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 right.
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# Test 14 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…

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at the museum, can i touch the old vase

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** i · **What happens:** touch · **To what, where:** old vase, museum

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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/297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t14:1
# text = at the museum, can i touch the old vase
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | can | i | the old vase |  | the museum |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vase=Co-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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only if it's behind glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t14:o1:1
# text = Only if it's behind glass
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, gently with one finger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t14:o2:1
# text = Yes, gently with one finger
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if no guard is looking that way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t14:o3:1
# text = Yes, if no guard is looking that way
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present · progressive | no guard | that way |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, don't touch unless a sign says you may

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t14:o4:1
# text = No, don't touch unless a sign says you may
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a sign |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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