--- title: Why do park rangers ask visitors to keep noise down? — Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thor… · tree and pragmatics description: Why do park rangers ask visitors to keep noise down? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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 ri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thor…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★★ · Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants… Why do park rangers ask visitors to keep noise down? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** park rangers · **What happens:** do, ask, keep down · **To what, where:** visitors, noise This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 301 «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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/301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t7:1 # text = Why do park rangers ask visitors to keep noise down? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 3 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 rangers ranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 down down ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | park rangers *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | park rangers | | visitors | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent visitor=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **keep down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | park rangers *not said here* | noise | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Patient | 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} Sound makes the rivers flood ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t7:o1:1 # text = Sound makes the rivers flood 1 Sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 flood flood VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Sound | the rivers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **flood** | present | the rivers *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Noise frightens animals and disturbs other visitors ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t7:o2:1 # text = Noise frightens animals and disturbs other visitors 1 Noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 frightens frighten VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 disturbs disturb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | present | Noise | animals | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | | 2 | **disturb** | present | Noise *not said here* | other visitors | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus visitor=Experiencer | ### Option 3 {#o3} Noise makes the trees and flowers grow much more slowly ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t7:o3:1 # text = Noise makes the trees and flowers grow much more slowly 1 Noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 much much ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 10 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Noise | the trees | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product | | 2 | **grow** | present | flowers | | | | | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Rangers need to sleep ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings:t7:o4:1 # text = Rangers need to sleep 1 Rangers ranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Rangers | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **sleep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rangers *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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. 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