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description: A boy in Seattle feels the classroom start to shake hard. Which is the right action? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 306 «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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
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# Test 4 · ★ · Breakfast, the school day and honest homework

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A boy in Seattle feels the classroom start to shake hard. Which is the right action?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy, classroom · **What happens:** feel, start, shake, be · **To what, where:** right action

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 306 «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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/306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Seattle feels the classroom start to shake hard.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework:t4:1
# text = A boy in Seattle feels the classroom start to shake hard.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Seattle	Seattle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | a boy in Seattle |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive | the classroom |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shake** | to-infinitive | the classroom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:* Which is the right action?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework:t4:2
# text = Which is the right action?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	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	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	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 right action |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Get under his desk, cover his head and hold on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework:t4:o1:1
# text = Get under his desk, cover his head and hold on
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | his desk |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **cover** | infinitive | you *not said here* | his head |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination |
| 3 | **hold on** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Go and look out of the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework:t4:o2:1
# text = Go and look out of the window
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the window |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stand in the doorway on his own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework:t4:o3:1
# text = Stand in the doorway on his own
1	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the doorway |  | on his own | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Run down the stairs and out of the building straight away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework:t4:o4:1
# text = Run down the stairs and out of the building straight away
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run down** | imperative | you *not said here* | the stairs and the building |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory |

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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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