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title: Which is a normal, everyday way grown-ups drink alcohol? — Coffee, tea, wine and the pub · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is a normal, everyday way grown-ups drink alcohol? Test 11 of lesson 27 «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» 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 wrong.
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# Test 11 · Coffee, tea, wine and the pub

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Which is a normal, everyday way grown-ups drink alcohol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grown ups · **What happens:** be, grow, drink · **To what, where:** normal everyday way, alcohol

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This is test 11 of lesson 27 «Coffee, tea, wine and the pub» 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/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub:t11:1
# text = Which is a normal, everyday way grown-ups drink alcohol?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a normal everyday way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drink** | present | grown ups | alcohol |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alcohol=Patient |

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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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A bottle of whisky before work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub:t11:o1:1
# text = A bottle of whisky before work
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	whisky	whisky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Drinking every time something goes wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub:t11:o2:1
# text = Drinking every time something goes wrong
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | gerund |  | something |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | present | Drinking |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Drinking alone in the car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub:t11:o3:1
# text = Drinking alone in the car
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | gerund |  |  |  | the car |  | alone *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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A glass of wine with Sunday dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub:t11:o4:1
# text = A glass of wine with Sunday dinner
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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