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title: What makes a good meeting point in a crowd? — Going to the doctor and staying togeth… · tree and pragmatics
description: What makes a good meeting point in a crowd? Test 4 of lesson 332 «Going to the doctor and staying together in 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · Going to the doctor and staying together in crowds

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What makes a good meeting point in a crowd?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** good meeting point, crowd

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This is test 4 of lesson 332 «Going to the doctor and staying together in 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/332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds:t4:1
# text = What makes a good meeting point in a crowd?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present |  | a good meeting point |  | a crowd |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material point=Product |

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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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Quiet and hidden away from the busy crowd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds:t4:o1:1
# text = Quiet and hidden away from the busy crowd
1	Quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide away** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Close to where all the food is being cooked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds:t4:o2:1
# text = Close to where all the food is being cooked
1	Close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | present · passive |  | all food |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Changing place each hour along with the show

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds:t4:o3:1
# text = Changing place each hour along with the show
1	Changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | gerund |  | place |  |  | hour | along the show | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |

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

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Easy to see and staying in one place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:332-going-to-the-doctor-and-staying-together-in-crowds:t4:o4:1
# text = Easy to see and staying in one place
1	Easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stay** | gerund |  |  |  | one place |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |

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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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