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title: playin chase round the restaurant tables — Good manners and safety in town: shops… · tree and pragmatics
description: playin chase round the restaurant tables Test 14 of lesson 311 «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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 wron
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# Test 14 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…

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playin chase round the restaurant tables

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗

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This is test 14 of lesson 311 «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t14:1
# text = playin chase round the restaurant tables
1	playin	playin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It's fine if you laugh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t14:o1:1
# text = It's fine if you laugh
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Sit down; waiters carry hot food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t14:o2:1
# text = Sit down; waiters carry hot food
1	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	waiters	waiter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | present | waiters | hot food |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only chase near the kitchen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t14:o3:1
# text = Only chase near the kitchen
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	chase	chase	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent near kitchen=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Run faster so nobody notices

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t14:o4:1
# text = Run faster so nobody notices
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
5	notices	notice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|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 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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