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title: Dad turns the radio off: «Enough doom for one day.» What is he doing? — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad turns the radio off: «Enough doom for one day.» What is he doing? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bad news, protests and helping others» 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 8 · ★ · Bad news, protests and helping others

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Dad turns the radio off: «Enough doom for one day.» What is he doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dad · **What happens:** turn off, do · **To what, where:** radio

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bad news, protests and helping others» 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/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dad turns the radio off: «Enough doom for one day.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t8:1
# text = Dad turns the radio off: «Enough doom for one day.»
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn off** | present | Dad | the radio |  |  |  | Enough doom for one day *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent radio=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is he doing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t8:2
# text = What is he doing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|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 | **do** | present · progressive | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Telling you the radio is broken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t8:o1:1
# text = Telling you the radio is broken
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj:pass	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | the radio | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient radio=Topic |
| 2 | **break** | present · passive | Telling |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Taking a break from heavy news

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t8:o2:1
# text = Taking a break from heavy news
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | a break |  | heavy news |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent break=Theme from news=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Trying to save the radio's batteries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t8:o3:1
# text = Trying to save the radio's batteries
1	Trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **save** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the radio's batteries |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Getting ready to go to bed at noon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t8:o4:1
# text = Getting ready to go to bed at noon
1	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | bed | noon |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |

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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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