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title: bath's running, you go to check your phone «for a sec». What should… — Spoiling and losing things · tree and pragmatics
description: bath's running, you go to check your phone «for a sec». What should you do? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 361 «Spoiling and losing things» 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 wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Spoiling and losing things

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bath's running, you go to check your phone «for a sec». What should you do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** running, bath, you · **What happens:** go, check, run, do · **To what, where:** phone

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 361 «Spoiling and losing things» 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/361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* bath's running, you go to check your phone «for a sec».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike:t7:1
# text = bath's running, you go to check your phone «for a sec».
1	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	running	running	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sec	sec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | bath's running |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | bath's running *not said here* | your phone |  |  |  | for a sec | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent phone=Theme for sec=Attribute |
| 3 | **run** |  | bath |  |  |  |  |  | nom running «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 you do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike:t7:2
# text = What should you do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|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 | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Check the phone for ten minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike:t7:o1:1
# text = Check the phone for ten minutes
1	Check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | the phone |  |  | minute |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Turn the taps up full

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike:t7:o2:1
# text = Turn the taps up full
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	taps	tap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the taps |  |  |  | full *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tap=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Go downstairs and wait

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike:t7:o3:1
# text = Go downstairs and wait
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | downstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Stay with the bath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:361-crayons-fridges-paper-planes-and-a-stolen-bike:t7:o4:1
# text = Stay with the bath
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the bath | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with bath=Location |

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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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