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title: A family from Texas is cycling on holiday in England. What must they… — Riding a bike or a scooter safely · tree and pragmatics
description: A family from Texas is cycling on holiday in England. What must they remember? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 5 «Riding a bike or a scooter safely» 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 4 · ★★ · Riding a bike or a scooter safely

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A family from Texas is cycling on holiday in England. What must they remember?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** family, they · **What happens:** cycle, remember · **To what, where:** holiday

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 5 «Riding a bike or a scooter safely» 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/5-bikes-and-scooters/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A family from Texas is cycling on holiday in England.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:5-bikes-and-scooters:t4:1
# text = A family from Texas is cycling on holiday in England.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cycling	cycle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cycle** | present · progressive | a family from Texas |  |  | holiday |  | in England | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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 must they remember?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:5-bikes-and-scooters:t4:2
# text = What must they remember?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remember	remember	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 | **remember** | must | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

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

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Ride on the left with the traffic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:5-bikes-and-scooters:t4:o1:1
# text = Ride on the left with the traffic
1	Ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ride in the middle of the lane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:5-bikes-and-scooters:t4:o2:1
# text = Ride in the middle of the lane
1	Ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ride against the traffic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:5-bikes-and-scooters:t4:o3:1
# text = Ride against the traffic
1	Ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	against	against	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	traffic	traffic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ride on the right like at home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:5-bikes-and-scooters:t4:o4:1
# text = Ride on the right like at home
1	Ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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