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title: Ted's playing hide and seek behind a parked car. What's the rule? — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ted's playing hide and seek behind a parked car. What's the rule? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 18 «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» 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 6 · ★ · Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags

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Ted's playing hide and seek behind a parked car. What's the rule?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** rule · **What happens:** play, seek, park, be · **To what, where:** parked car

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 18 «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» 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/18-car-safety/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ted's playing hide and seek behind a parked car.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:18-car-safety:t6:1
# text = Ted's playing hide and seek behind a parked car.
1	Ted	Ted	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seek** | infinitive |  |  |  | a parked car |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent behind car=Location |
| 3 | **park** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's the rule?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:18-car-safety:t6:2
# text = What's the rule?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the rule |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It's fine if the car is small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:18-car-safety:t6:o1:1
# text = It's fine if the car is small
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the car |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It's fine if you crouch down low

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:18-car-safety:t6:o2:1
# text = It's fine if you crouch down low
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	crouch	crouch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **crouch down** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | down, low *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Never play behind or near parked cars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:18-car-safety:t6:o3:1
# text = Never play behind or near parked cars
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	conj	_	_
6	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **play** | imperative | you *not said here* | parked cars |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
| 2 | **park** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It's fine if the engine is off for a minute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:18-car-safety:t6:o4:1
# text = It's fine if the engine is off for a minute
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	off	off	ADV	RB	_	3	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the engine |  |  |  | minute | off *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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