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title: Mum's petition to save the town library gets thousands of signatures… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum's petition to save the town library gets thousands of signatures. What does a big petition do? Test 9 · ★ 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 cho
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# Test 9 · ★ · Bad news, protests and helping others

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Mum's petition to save the town library gets thousands of signatures. What does a big petition do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** petition, Mum, big petition · **What happens:** save, get, petition, do · **To what, where:** town library, thousands

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum's petition to save the town library gets thousands of signatures.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t9:1
# text = Mum's petition to save the town library gets thousands of signatures.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	signatures	signature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | to-infinitive | Mum's petition *not said here* | the town library |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent library=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | Mum's petition | thousands of signatures |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thousand=Stimulus |
| 3 | **petition** |  | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 does a big petition do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t9:2
# text = What does a big petition do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · do-support | a big petition |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It makes the Prime Minister resign

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t9:o1:1
# text = It makes the Prime Minister resign
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	5	compound	_	_
5	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	resign	resign	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the Prime Minister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resign** | present | the Prime Minister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is thrown away unread, because nobody has time to read so many names

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t9:o2:1
# text = It is thrown away unread, because nobody has time to read so many names
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	unread	unread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw away** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  | away, unread *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | nobody |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | many names |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It shows those in charge how many people want the change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t9:o3:1
# text = It shows those in charge how many people want the change
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | It | those |  |  |  | in charge | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Patient in charge=Topic |
| 2 | **want** | present | many people | the change |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot change=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It turns into a new law straight away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others:t9:o4:1
# text = It turns into a new law straight away
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | It |  |  | a new law |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into law=Trajectory |

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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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