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title: Jack is home alone and smells something like rotten eggs near the st… — Home alone, the door and the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack is home alone and smells something like rotten eggs near the stove. What should he do? Test 4 · ★★ 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 wro
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone

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Jack is home alone and smells something like rotten eggs near the stove. What should he do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jack · **What happens:** be, do

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jack is home alone and smells something like rotten eggs near the stove.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t4:1
# text = Jack is home alone and smells something like rotten eggs near the stove.
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advcl	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Jack |  |  |  |  | smell *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should he do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t4:2
# text = What should he do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Call his friend from inside to ask what it is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t4:o1:1
# text = Call his friend from inside to ask what it is
1	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	1	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	ccomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* | his friend |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent friend=Theme from inside=Source |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | friend |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Go outside and phone for help from there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t4:o2:1
# text = Go outside and phone for help from there
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help; outside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from there=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Turn on the kitchen fan to blow it away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t4:o3:1
# text = Turn on the kitchen fan to blow it away
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen fan |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on fan=Trajectory |
| 2 | **blow away** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | fan |  |  |  | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Turn the stove knobs on and off to test them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t4:o4:1
# text = Turn the stove knobs on and off to test them
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	knobs	knob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	off	off	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	test	test	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | the stove knobs |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knob=Theme |
| 2 | **test** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | knobs *= knob* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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