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title: Mum: "Booked my two weeks for August, before Karen grabs them!" Why… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum: "Booked my two weeks for August, before Karen grabs them!" Why the hurry? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 2 «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» of the adult life 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 10 · ★ · Shifts, nights and other ways of working

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Mum: "Booked my two weeks for August, before Karen grabs them!" Why the hurry?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mum, Karen · **What happens:** book, grab · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2 «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» of the adult life 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/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum: "Booked my two weeks for August, before Karen grabs them!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working:t10:1
# text = Mum: "Booked my two weeks for August, before Karen grabs them!"
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Booked	book	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grabs	grab	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **book** *in a quote* | participle | Mum |  |  |  | august; week |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grab** *in a quote* | present | Karen | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why the hurry?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working:t10:2
# text = Why the hurry?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Not everyone can be off at the same time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working:t10:o1:1
# text = Not everyone can be off at the same time
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | everyone |  |  |  | at the same time |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
August leave is unpaid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working:t10:o2:1
# text = August leave is unpaid
1	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	unpaid	unpaid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | August leave |  |  |  |  | unpaid *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Karen will be her boss in August

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working:t10:o3:1
# text = Karen will be her boss in August
1	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | future | Karen | Karen's boss |  |  | august |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Holiday disappears if you don't book it by Monday morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working:t10:o4:1
# text = Holiday disappears if you don't book it by Monday morning
1	Holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	disappears	disappear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	book	book	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | present | Holiday |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **book** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | Holiday |  |  | morning |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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