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title: street lights on, can i stay out a bit more — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rul… · tree and pragmatics
description: street lights on, can i stay out a bit more Test 16 · ★ of lesson 304 «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» 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 16 · ★ · Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
street lights on, can i stay out a bit more

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** street lights · **What happens:** stay out · **To what, where:** more

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This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 304 «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» 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/304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t16:1
# text = street lights on, can i stay out a bit more
1	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	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	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay out** | can | street lights | more |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme more=Location |

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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 -->
Stay out if you wear dark clothes so cars can't see you messing about

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t16:o1:1
# text = Stay out if you wear dark clothes so cars can't see you messing about
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	obj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	messing	mess	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | dark clothes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |
| 3 | **not** **see** | can | cars | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mess about** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Go home now, drivers see children less in the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t16:o2:1
# text = Go home now, drivers see children less in the dark
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present | drivers | children |  | the dark |  | less *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stay if your mates do

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t16:o3:1
# text = Stay if your mates do
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your mates |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stay till it's pitch dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t16:o4:1
# text = Stay till it's pitch dark
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	till	till	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  | till pitch |  | 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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