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title: A girl at school in Dublin falls in the playground and needs her mum… — Marks, group work, help at school and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl at school in Dublin falls in the playground and needs her mum to collect her. Who can phone her mum? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 307 «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 3 · ★ · Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A girl at school in Dublin falls in the playground and needs her mum to collect her. Who can phone her mum?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** fall, need, collect, phone · **To what, where:** playground, mum, girl

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 307 «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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/307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl at school in Dublin falls in the playground and needs her mum to collect her.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:t3:1
# text = A girl at school in Dublin falls in the playground and needs her mum to collect her.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | a girl at school in Dublin |  |  | the playground |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in playground=Location |
| 2 | **need** | present | a girl at school in Dublin *not said here* | girl's mum |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mum=Theme |
| 3 | **collect** | to-infinitive | a girl at school in Dublin *not said here* | girl |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Who can phone her mum?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:t3:2
# text = Who can phone her mum?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	phone	phone	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **phone** | can |  |  | girl's mum |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Another pupil with a mobile phone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:t3:o1:1
# text = Another pupil with a mobile phone
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mobile	mobile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The bus driver who takes her home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:t3:o2:1
# text = The bus driver who takes her home
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | the bus driver | driver's home |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The staff in the school office

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:t3:o3:1
# text = The staff in the school office
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nobody, she must wait until home time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:t3:o4:1
# text = Nobody, she must wait until home time
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	until	until	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | must | she |  |  |  | time | Nobody *vocative* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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