--- title: home alone, doorbell, don't know them — Home alone, the door and the phone · tree and pragmatics description: home alone, doorbell, don't know them Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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/35-home-alone/t10/) [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/) / [Home alone, the door and the phone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/35-home-alone/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone home alone, doorbell, don't know them **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** not know · **To what, where:** home This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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/35-home-alone/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t10:1 # text = home alone, doorbell, don't know them 1 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 alone alone ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 doorbell doorbell NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** | infinitive · do-support | | home | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Don't open the door ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t10:o1:1 # text = Don't open the door 1 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 2 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 open open VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **open** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | the door | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Let them in to wait ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t10:o2:1 # text = Let them in to wait 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let in** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wait** | to-infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Open it if they smile ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t10:o3:1 # text = Open it if they smile 1 Open open VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 smile smile VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 2 | **smile** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | they | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Open it and ask who it is ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t10:o4:1 # text = Open it and ask who it is 1 Open open VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 4 ccomp _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | it | | | | | | tree rules | **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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