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title: house is on fire but my tablet's upstairs — Fire at home · tree and pragmatics
description: house is on fire but my tablet's upstairs Test 14 · ★ of lesson 34 «Fire at home» 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 14 · ★ · Fire at home

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house is on fire but my tablet's upstairs

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** house · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fire

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 34 «Fire at home» 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/34-fire-at-home/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:34-fire-at-home:t14:1
# text = house is on fire but my tablet's upstairs
1	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | house |  |  | fire but my tablet |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present |  |  |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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Go up if the smoke is thin and you hold your breath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:34-fire-at-home:t14:o1:1
# text = Go up if the smoke is thin and you hold your breath
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the smoke |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | present | you | your breath |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |

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

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Get out and stay out, never go back for things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:34-fire-at-home:t14:o2:1
# text = Get out and stay out, never go back for things
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay out** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **go back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for things | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Send your brother up for it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:34-fire-at-home:t14:o3:1
# text = Send your brother up for it
1	Send	send	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	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	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 | **send up** | imperative | you *not said here* | your brother |  |  |  | for it | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Run up quickly and get it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:34-fire-at-home:t14:o4:1
# text = Run up quickly and get it
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	get	get	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 | **run up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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