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title: Walking home in winter darkness, what keeps you safest from cars? — First aid and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Walking home in winter darkness, what keeps you safest from cars? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 39 «First aid and safety» of the world 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 7 · ★★ · First aid and safety

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Walking home in winter darkness, what keeps you safest from cars?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** walk, keep · **To what, where:** winter darkness, you

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 39 «First aid and safety» of the world 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/world/39-first-aid-and-safety/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:39-first-aid-and-safety:t7:1
# text = Walking home in winter darkness, what keeps you safest from cars?
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  | winter darkness |  | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Trajectory |
| 2 | **keep** | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Wearing a dark coat so drivers are not dazzled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:39-first-aid-and-safety:t7:o1:1
# text = Wearing a dark coat so drivers are not dazzled
1	Wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	drivers	driver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | gerund |  | a dark coat |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **dazzle** | present · passive |  | drivers |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Walking with your eyes on your phone screen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:39-first-aid-and-safety:t7:o2:1
# text = Walking with your eyes on your phone screen
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  | your phone screen |  | with your eyes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on screen=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Walking right down the middle of the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:39-first-aid-and-safety:t7:o3:1
# text = Walking right down the middle of the road
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	right	right	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  | the middle of the road |  | right *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down middle=Trajectory |

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

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Wearing something bright or reflective

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:39-first-aid-and-safety:t7:o4:1
# text = Wearing something bright or reflective
1	Wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	reflective	reflective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | gerund |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent something=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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