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description: A child in Galway, Ireland, sees a man fall into the river. Which numbers could she call? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 36 «Calling emergency services well» 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 · ★★ · Calling emergency services well

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A child in Galway, Ireland, sees a man fall into the river. Which numbers could she call?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** child, man, numbers · **What happens:** see, fall, call · **To what, where:** river · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 36 «Calling emergency services well» 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/36-calling-emergency-services/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A child in Galway, Ireland, sees a man fall into the river.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:36-calling-emergency-services:t9:1
# text = A child in Galway, Ireland, sees a man fall into the river.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Galway	Galway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | a child in Galway and Ireland |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | infinitive | a man |  |  |  |  | into the river *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result |

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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:* Which numbers could she call?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:36-calling-emergency-services:t9:2
# text = Which numbers could she call?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | could | which numbers |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

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

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999 or 112

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:36-calling-emergency-services:t9:o1:1
# text = 999 or 112
1	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	112	112	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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911 or 000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:36-calling-emergency-services:t9:o2:1
# text = 911 or 000
1	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	000	000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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000 or 911

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:36-calling-emergency-services:t9:o3:1
# text = 000 or 911
1	000	000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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111 or 000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:36-calling-emergency-services:t9:o4:1
# text = 111 or 000
1	111	111	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	000	000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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