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title: What would be the best thing to wear for a ride on a grey, rainy aft… — Riding a bike or a scooter safely · tree and pragmatics
description: What would be the best thing to wear for a ride on a grey, rainy afternoon? Test 9 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Riding a bike or a scooter safely

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What would be the best thing to wear for a ride on a grey, rainy afternoon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, wear · **To what, where:** best thing

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:5-bikes-and-scooters:t9:1
# text = What would be the best thing to wear for a ride on a grey, rainy afternoon?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would |  | the best thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for a ride on a grey rainy afternoon | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A dark grey raincoat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:5-bikes-and-scooters:t9:o1:1
# text = A dark grey raincoat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	raincoat	raincoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Whatever colour, it makes no difference

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:5-bikes-and-scooters:t9:o2:1
# text = Whatever colour, it makes no difference
1	Whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | whatever colour | no difference |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A black hoodie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:5-bikes-and-scooters:t9:o3:1
# text = A black hoodie
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A bright jacket with reflective strips

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:5-bikes-and-scooters:t9:o4:1
# text = A bright jacket with reflective strips
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	reflective	reflective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	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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