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title: Overheard on the phone: "Yeah, I lost it with the kids over some mud… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics
description: Overheard on the phone: "Yeah, I lost it with the kids over some muddy boots. Felt rotten after." How does the speaker feel about the shouting now? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 36 «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 1 · ★ · Big feelings in big people

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Overheard on the phone: "Yeah, I lost it with the kids over some muddy boots. Felt rotten after." How does the speaker feel about the shouting now?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** I, speaker · **What happens:** overhear, lose, feel · **To what, where:** phone, muddy boots

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 36 «Big feelings in big people» 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/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Overheard on the phone: "Yeah, I lost it with the kids over some muddy boots.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:36-big-feelings-in-big-people:t1:1
# text = Overheard on the phone: "Yeah, I lost it with the kids over some muddy boots.
1	Overheard	overhear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overhear** | participle |  |  |  | the phone |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | I | phone |  | some muddy boots |  | with the kids | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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:* Felt rotten after."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:36-big-feelings-in-big-people:t1:2
# text = Felt rotten after."
1	Felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	after	after	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past |  |  |  |  |  | after, rotten *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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*Sentence 3:* How does the speaker feel about the shouting now?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:36-big-feelings-in-big-people:t1:3
# text = How does the speaker feel about the shouting now?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present · do-support | the speaker |  |  |  | now | about the shouting | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about shouting=Location |

## The options {#options}

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

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Sorry and bad about it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:36-big-feelings-in-big-people:t1:o1:1
# text = Sorry and bad about it
1	Sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Happy the kids were scared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:36-big-feelings-in-big-people:t1:o2:1
# text = Happy the kids were scared
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	scared	scared	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** | past | the Happy kids |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Angry all over again at the boots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:36-big-feelings-in-big-people:t1:o3:1
# text = Angry all over again at the boots
1	Angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Proud of how loud it was

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:36-big-feelings-in-big-people:t1:o4:1
# text = Proud of how loud it was
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | it |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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