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title: knife's in the soapy water, gonna fish it out — Helping in the kitchen, bathroom priva… · tree and pragmatics
description: knife's in the soapy water, gonna fish it out Test 10 · ★ of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 10 · ★ · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…

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knife's in the soapy water, gonna fish it out

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** knife, soapy water · **What happens:** be, fish out · **To what, where:** soapy water, knife

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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/321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:t10:1
# text = knife's in the soapy water, gonna fish it out
1	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	soapy	soapy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	dep	_	_
9	fish	fish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | knife |  |  | the soapy water |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fish out** | infinitive | the soapy water *not said here* | knife |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Use your fingertips

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:t10:o1:1
# text = Use your fingertips
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | your fingertips |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fingertip=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Feel around for it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:t10:o2:1
# text = Feel around for it
1	Feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel around** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for it; around *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pull the plug and grab it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:t10:o3:1
# text = Pull the plug and grab it
1	Pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	plug	plug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	grab	grab	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | imperative | you *not said here* | the plug |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Theme |
| 2 | **grab** | infinitive | you *not said here* | plug |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Ask an adult and never reach for it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:t10:o4:1
# text = Ask an adult and never reach for it
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	reach	reach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **reach** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for adult | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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