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title: A girl in Phoenix is moving to Alaska. Which plan will help most? — Moving, new schools, change and grief · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Phoenix is moving to Alaska. Which plan will help most? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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 1 · ★★ · Moving, new schools, change and grief

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A girl in Phoenix is moving to Alaska. Which plan will help most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl, plan · **What happens:** move, help · **To what, where:** Alaska

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Moving, new schools, change and grief» 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/97-moving-change-and-grief/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in Phoenix is moving to Alaska.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:97-moving-change-and-grief:t1:1
# text = A girl in Phoenix is moving to Alaska.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present · progressive | a girl in Phoenix |  | Alaska |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to alaska=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 plan will help most?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:97-moving-change-and-grief:t1:2
# text = Which plan will help most?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | future | which plan |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Not think about it until the van arrives

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:97-moving-change-and-grief:t1:o1:1
# text = Not think about it until the van arrives
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about it | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 2 | **arrive** | present | the van |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Look at photos of her new town and say goodbye to friends properly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:97-moving-change-and-grief:t1:o2:1
# text = Look at photos of her new town and say goodbye to friends properly
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at photos of her new town | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at photo=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you *not said here* | goodbye | friends |  |  | properly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic to friend=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Refuse to unpack until she likes the new house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:97-moving-change-and-grief:t1:o3:1
# text = Refuse to unpack until she likes the new house
1	Refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	unpack	unpack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **unpack** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** | present | she | the new house |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot house=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hide in her room on moving day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:97-moving-change-and-grief:t1:o4:1
# text = Hide in her room on moving day
1	Hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund | Hide in her room *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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