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title: Dad's colleague texts: "Your Ella's dinosaur pic is on the fridge he… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad's colleague texts: "Your Ella's dinosaur pic is on the fridge here, you never shut up about her lol." How does Dad feel? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 37 «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»

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Dad's colleague texts: "Your Ella's dinosaur pic is on the fridge here, you never shut up about her lol." How does Dad feel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dinosaur pic, colleague texts, Dad · **What happens:** be, not shut up, feel · **To what, where:** fridge

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 37 «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» 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/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dad's colleague texts: "Your Ella's dinosaur pic is on the fridge here, you never shut up about her lol."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so:t6:1
# text = Dad's colleague texts: "Your Ella's dinosaur pic is on the fridge here, you never shut up about her lol."
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	colleague	colleague	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pic	pic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	shut	shut	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	lol	lol	NOUN	NN	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Your dinosaur pic |  |  | the fridge; here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **shut up** *in a quote* | present | Dad's colleague texts and the fridge |  |  |  |  | about Ella's lol | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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:* How does Dad feel?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so:t6:2
# text = How does Dad feel?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **feel** | present · do-support | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Annoyed at Ella

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so:t6:o1:1
# text = Annoyed at Ella
1	Annoyed	annoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **annoy** | participle |  |  |  | Ella |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Worried about Ella

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so:t6:o2:1
# text = Worried about Ella
1	Worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Proud of Ella

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so:t6:o3:1
# text = Proud of Ella
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Embarrassed by Ella

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so:t6:o4:1
# text = Embarrassed by Ella
1	Embarrassed	embarrass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embarrass** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Ella | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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