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title: Which is the safest thing to do when your house fills with smoke? — Fire at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is the safest thing to do when your house fills with smoke? Test 9 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fire at home

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Which is the safest thing to do when your house fills with smoke?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** house · **What happens:** be, do, fill · **To what, where:** safest thing

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:34-fire-at-home:t9:1
# text = Which is the safest thing to do when your house fills with smoke?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the safest thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fill** | present | your house |  |  |  |  | with smoke | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with smoke=Instrument |

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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 {#o1}

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Walk upright to see over the smoke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:34-fire-at-home:t9:o1:1
# text = Walk upright to see over the smoke
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upright *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the smoke |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Stay still and wait for the smoke to clear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:34-fire-at-home:t9:o2:1
# text = Stay still and wait for the smoke to clear
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the smoke | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **clear** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hold your breath and run through the flames

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:34-fire-at-home:t9:o3:1
# text = Hold your breath and run through the flames
1	Hold	hold	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	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | your breath |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | present | you *not said here* |  |  | the flames |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through flame=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Crawl low under the smoke to the exit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:34-fire-at-home:t9:o4:1
# text = Crawl low under the smoke to the exit
1	Crawl	crawl	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	exit	exit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crawl** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the smoke |  | to the exit; low *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to exit=Destination |

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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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