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title: Mum, laughing: "Who put a red sock in with the school shirts?!" What… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum, laughing: "Who put a red sock in with the school shirts?!" What is the lesson? Test 3 of lesson 38 «Looking after yourself and a home» 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 3 · Looking after yourself and a home

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Mum, laughing: "Who put a red sock in with the school shirts?!" What is the lesson?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, lesson · **What happens:** laugh, put in, be · **To what, where:** red sock

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This is test 3 of lesson 38 «Looking after yourself and a home» 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/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum, laughing: "Who put a red sock in with the school shirts?!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:t3:1
# text = Mum, laughing: "Who put a red sock in with the school shirts?!"
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?!	?!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put in** *in a quote* | past |  | a red sock |  |  |  | with the school shirts | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sock=Goal |

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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 the lesson?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:t3:2
# text = What is the lesson?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the lesson |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Wash everything together to save time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:t3:o1:1
# text = Wash everything together to save time
1	Wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | imperative | you *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | together *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
| 2 | **save** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Never wash school shirts at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:t3:o2:1
# text = Never wash school shirts at all
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shirts	shirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wash** | imperative | you *not said here* | school shirts |  | all |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Red socks are not allowed at school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:t3:o3:1
# text = Red socks are not allowed at school
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | present · passive |  | Red socks |  | school |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

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

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Sort laundry by colour before washing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:t3:o4:1
# text = Sort laundry by colour before washing
1	Sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	laundry	laundry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | gerund | Sort laundry by colour *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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