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title: forgot to shake my boots out, somethin bit my toe, we're in Sydney — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics
description: forgot to shake my boots out, somethin bit my toe, we're in Sydney Test 16 · ★★ of lesson 69 «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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 16 · ★★ · Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours

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forgot to shake my boots out, somethin bit my toe, we're in Sydney

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** forget, not shake out, be · **To what, where:** boots, Sydney

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This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 69 «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t16:1
# text = forgot to shake my boots out, somethin bit my toe, we're in Sydney
1	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	somethin	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	compound	_	_
9	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **shake out** | to-infinitive |  | my boots |  |  |  | somethin bit  my toe *obl*; out *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent boot=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | we |  |  | Sydney |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Pop the boots back on and keep going

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t16:o1:1
# text = Pop the boots back on and keep going
1	Pop	pop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pop** | imperative | you *not said here* | the boots |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Squeeze the bite to push it out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t16:o2:1
# text = Squeeze the bite to push it out
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squeeze** | imperative | you *not said here* | the bite |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Theme |
| 2 | **push out** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | bite |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wait till tomorrow and see how it feels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t16:o3:1
# text = Wait till tomorrow and see how it feels
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	till	till	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | tomorrow |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **feel** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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

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Tell an adult now and call 000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours:t16:o4:1
# text = Tell an adult now and call 000
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	000	000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | 000 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 000=Recipient |

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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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