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title: Auntie Jen: «Wilsons' lad, police round, told ya.» Later: the police… — Our street: who parked where and who w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Auntie Jen: «Wilsons' lad, police round, told ya.» Later: the police came because the Wilsons had been burgled. What does it show? Test 10 of lesson 41 «Our street: who parked where and who won what» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 10 · Our street: who parked where and who won what

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Auntie Jen: «Wilsons' lad, police round, told ya.» Later: the police came because the Wilsons had been burgled. What does it show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** police · **What happens:** tell, come, burgle, show · **To what, where:** Wilsons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 41 «Our street: who parked where and who won what» 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/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Auntie Jen: «Wilsons' lad, police round, told ya.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what:t10:1
# text = Auntie Jen: «Wilsons' lad, police round, told ya.»
1	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Jen	Jen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Wilsons	wilson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	police	police	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	round	round	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	ya	ya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:* Later: the police came because the Wilsons had been burgled.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what:t10:2
# text = Later: the police came because the Wilsons had been burgled.
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Wilsons	Wilson	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	burgled	burgle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the police |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burgle** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Wilsons |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |

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*Sentence 3:* What does it show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what:t10:3
# text = What does it show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	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 | **show** | present · do-support | police |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Police only visit bad families

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what:t10:o1:1
# text = Police only visit bad families
1	Police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | present | Police | bad families |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Co-Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Auntie Jen guessed right after all, as she usually does

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what:t10:o2:1
# text = Auntie Jen guessed right after all, as she usually does
1	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Jen	Jen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | past | Auntie |  |  |  | after all | right *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | Auntie |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Pinning a story on a person can hurt the innocent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what:t10:o3:1
# text = Pinning a story on a person can hurt the innocent
1	Pinning	pin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pin** | gerund |  | a story |  |  |  | on a person | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient on person=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **hurt** | can | Pinning | the innocent |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer innocent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The lad must have done something else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what:t10:o4:1
# text = The lad must have done something else
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	else	else	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | must · perfect · passive |  | the lad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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