--- title: Mate: «green man's taking ages, just leg it». Cars are coming. What'… — Staying up, screens and coming home late · tree and pragmatics description: Mate: «green man's taking ages, just leg it». Cars are coming. What's wise? Test 4 of lesson 348 «Staying up, screens and coming home late» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Staying up, screens and coming home late](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/) / t4 # Test 4 · Staying up, screens and coming home late Mate: «green man's taking ages, just leg it». Cars are coming. What's wise? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** leg, green man, Cars · **What happens:** leg, take, come, be This is test 4 of lesson 348 «Staying up, screens and coming home late» 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/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Mate: «green man's taking ages, just leg it». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t4:1 # text = Mate: «green man's taking ages, just leg it». 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 taking taking NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 just just ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leg** *in a quote* | | leg | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | | green man | | | | | | nom taking «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. *Sentence 2:* Cars are coming. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t4:2 # text = Cars are coming. 1 Cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present · progressive | Cars | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | *Sentence 3:* What's wise? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t4:3 # text = What's wise? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | wise *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Run fast across the road ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t4:o1:1 # text = Run fast across the road 1 Run run VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ 3 across across ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | the road | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory | ### Option 2 {#o2} Go halfway and wait in the middle ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t4:o2:1 # text = Go halfway and wait in the middle 1 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 halfway halfway ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | halfway *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | the middle | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} Follow the mate wherever he goes ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t4:o3:1 # text = Follow the mate wherever he goes 1 Follow follow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | imperative | you *not said here* | the mate | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme | | 2 | **go** | present | he | | | | | wherever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Wait for the green man ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t4:o4:1 # text = Wait for the green man 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | for the green man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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