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title: Why is a tidy table useful at the end of a lesson? — Breakfast, the school day and honest h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is a tidy table useful at the end of a lesson? Test 8 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Breakfast, the school day and honest homework

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Why is a tidy table useful at the end of a lesson?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** end

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework:t8:1
# text = Why is a tidy table useful at the end of a lesson?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | at the end of a lesson | a tidy table *obl:unmarked*; useful *property* | tree rules |

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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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It lets the teacher skip marking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework:t8:o1:1
# text = It lets the teacher skip marking
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	skip	skip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	marking	marking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | It | the skip marking |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marking=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It keeps the pencils sharp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework:t8:o2:1
# text = It keeps the pencils sharp
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	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	pencils	pencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | It | the pencils |  |  |  | sharp *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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You find things quickly and nobody trips over things left about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework:t8:o3:1
# text = You find things quickly and nobody trips over things left about
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
7	trips	trip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | You | things |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 2 | **trip** | present | nobody |  |  | things |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over thing=Trajectory |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  | things *not said here* |  |  |  | about *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It makes the lesson finish early, so everyone gets a longer break

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework:t8:o4:1
# text = It makes the lesson finish early, so everyone gets a longer break
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the lesson |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **finish** | infinitive | the lesson *not said here* |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** | present | everyone | a longer break |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer break=Stimulus |

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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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