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title: Someone knocks again and again and tries the door handle while Ella… — Home alone, the door and the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone knocks again and again and tries the door handle while Ella is home alone. What should Ella do? Test 6 · ★★ 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 ch
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone

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Someone knocks again and again and tries the door handle while Ella is home alone. What should Ella do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Someone, Ella · **What happens:** knock, try, be, do · **To what, where:** door handle

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Someone knocks again and again and tries the door handle while Ella is home alone.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t6:1
# text = Someone knocks again and again and tries the door handle while Ella is home alone.
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knocks	knock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advcl	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | present | Someone |  |  |  | again |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **try** | present | Someone *not said here* | the door handle |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | Ella |  |  |  |  | home *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 Ella do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t6:2
# text = What should Ella do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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 | Ella |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Phone 999 or the local emergency number at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t6:o1:1
# text = Phone 999 or the local emergency number at once
1	Phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Unlock the back door and wait outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t6:o2:1
# text = Unlock the back door and wait outside
1	Unlock	unlock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unlock** | imperative | you *not said here* | the back door |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hide and hope they go away, calling nobody

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t6:o3:1
# text = Hide and hope they go away, calling nobody
1	Hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | present | Hide and hope |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | Hide and hope *not said here* |  | nobody |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Open the door and ask them to leave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:35-home-alone:t6:o4:1
# text = Open the door and ask them to leave
1	Open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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