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title: Why does everyone stand far away when the strimmer is going? — Kitchen and garden dangers · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does everyone stand far away when the strimmer is going? Test 11 of lesson 15 «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology 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 11 · Kitchen and garden dangers

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Why does everyone stand far away when the strimmer is going?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** everyone, strimmer · **What happens:** stand, go

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This is test 11 of lesson 15 «Kitchen and garden dangers» of the technology 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/technology/15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers:t11:1
# text = Why does everyone stand far away when the strimmer is going?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	strimmer	strimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present · do-support | everyone |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | present · progressive | the strimmer |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It might run out of string

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers:t11:o1:1
# text = It might run out of string
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | might | It |  |  | string |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out string=Trajectory |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It throws stones and bits that can hit you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers:t11:o2:1
# text = It throws stones and bits that can hit you
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	throws	throw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | present | It | stones and bits |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 2 | **hit** | can | stones and bits | you |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It blows cold air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers:t11:o3:1
# text = It blows cold air
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | present | It | cold air |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent air=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is too loud to be near without ear muffs on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:15-kitchen-and-garden-dangers:t11:o4:1
# text = It is too loud to be near without ear muffs on
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	near	near	ADV	RB	_	4	advcl	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	muffs	muff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | without ear muffs; loud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |

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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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