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description: Auntie at the station: "So proud of him, but the house will be so empty." How does she feel? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Being a good grown-up» 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Being a good grown-up

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Auntie at the station: "So proud of him, but the house will be so empty." How does she feel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** house, she · **What happens:** be, feel

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Being a good grown-up» 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/40-being-a-good-grown-up/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Auntie at the station: "So proud of him, but the house will be so empty."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:t10:1
# text = Auntie at the station: "So proud of him, but the house will be so empty."
1	Auntie	auntie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the house |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |

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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 she feel?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:t10:2
# text = How does she 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	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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 | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

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

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Proud and sad at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:t10:o1:1
# text = Proud and sad at once
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only worried about the train

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:t10:o2:1
# text = Only worried about the train
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only happy that he's gone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:t10:o3:1
# text = Only happy that he's gone
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only angry at the station

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:40-being-a-good-grown-up:t10:o4:1
# text = Only angry at the station
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

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