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title: What would be the wisest thing if a sofa needs moving? — Lifting and carrying heavy things · tree and pragmatics
description: What would be the wisest thing if a sofa needs moving? Test 8 of lesson 3 «Lifting and carrying heavy things» 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 8 · Lifting and carrying heavy things

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What would be the wisest thing if a sofa needs moving?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sofa · **What happens:** be, need, move · **To what, where:** wisest thing

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This is test 8 of lesson 3 «Lifting and carrying heavy things» 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/3-lifting-and-carrying/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:3-lifting-and-carrying:t8:1
# text = What would be the wisest thing if a sofa needs moving?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would |  | the wisest thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a sofa |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **move** *not said to happen* | gerund | a sofa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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}

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One child pulls it alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:3-lifting-and-carrying:t8:o1:1
# text = One child pulls it alone
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | One child | it |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Push it over and roll it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:3-lifting-and-carrying:t8:o2:1
# text = Push it over and roll it
1	Push	push	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	roll	roll	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push over** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **roll** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Lift one end by bending your back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:3-lifting-and-carrying:t8:o3:1
# text = Lift one end by bending your back
1	Lift	lift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | imperative | you *not said here* | one end |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
| 2 | **bend** | gerund | you *not said here* | your back |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent back=Material |

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

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Several people lift it together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:3-lifting-and-carrying:t8:o4:1
# text = Several people lift it together
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lift	lift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | present | Several people | it |  |  |  | together *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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