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title: Grandma jokes, "My mouth feels like it belongs to someone else, love… — Sore backs, glasses and feeling low · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandma jokes, "My mouth feels like it belongs to someone else, love." Where has she been? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 22 «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» 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 w
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# Test 11 · ★ · Sore backs, glasses and feeling low

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Grandma jokes, "My mouth feels like it belongs to someone else, love." Where has she been?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mouth, she · **What happens:** feel, belong, be · **To what, where:** Grandma jokes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 22 «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» 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/22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grandma jokes, "My mouth feels like it belongs to someone else, love."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low:t11:1
# text = Grandma jokes, "My mouth feels like it belongs to someone else, love."
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	_
13	else	else	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | My mouth | Grandma jokes |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **belong** *in a quote* | present | mouth |  |  |  |  | to someone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Where has she been?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low:t11:2
# text = Where has she been?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present · perfect | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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At the optician, having her eyes tested

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low:t11:o1:1
# text = At the optician, having her eyes tested
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	optician	optician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	tested	test	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the optician *not said here* | her eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **test** | participle | her eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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At the bank, opening a new account

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low:t11:o2:1
# text = At the bank, opening a new account
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | gerund |  | a new account |  | the bank |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent account=Theme at bank=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At the hairdresser, having her hair cut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low:t11:o3:1
# text = At the hairdresser, having her hair cut
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hairdresser	hairdresser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the hairdresser *not said here* | her hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut** | participle | her hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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

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At the dentist, having a filling with a numbing injection

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:22-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low:t11:o4:1
# text = At the dentist, having a filling with a numbing injection
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dentist	dentist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	filling	filling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	numbing	numb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	injection	injection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the dentist *not said here* | a filling |  |  |  | with a numbing injection | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent filling=Patient |
| 2 | **numb** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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