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title: Nan: «Corner house, someone died there, nobody'll buy it now.» Who c… — Our street: when a guess becomes a rep… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nan: «Corner house, someone died there, nobody'll buy it now.» Who could this story really harm? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 43 «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation

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Nan: «Corner house, someone died there, nobody'll buy it now.» Who could this story really harm?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** someone, Nan · **What happens:** die, buy · **To what, where:** Corner house, house

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 43 «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Nan: «Corner house, someone died there, nobody'll buy it now.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation:t9:1
# text = Nan: «Corner house, someone died there, nobody'll buy it now.»
1	Nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
8	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** *in a quote* | past | someone | Corner house *not said here* |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | future | Nan | house |  |  | now |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:* Who could this story really harm?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation:t9:2
# text = Who could this story really harm?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nobody, it's just a spooky tale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation:t9:o1:1
# text = Nobody, it's just a spooky tale
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	spooky	spooky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nobody | a spooky tale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The ghost living in the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation:t9:o2:1
# text = The ghost living in the house
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | the ghost *not said here* |  |  | the house |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The children who tell the story

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation:t9:o3:1
# text = The children who tell the story
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the children | the story |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The family trying to sell it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation:t9:o4:1
# text = The family trying to sell it
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | gerund | the family *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the family *not said here* | family |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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