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# Test 6 · ★★ · Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental contr…

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Mum, cross: "Bloody autoplay, I swear I turned it off." What might have happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** swear, turn off, happen · **To what, where:** Bloody autoplay, autoplay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» 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/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum, cross: "Bloody autoplay, I swear I turned it off."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls:t6:1
# text = Mum, cross: "Bloody autoplay, I swear I turned it off."
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	autoplay	autoplay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	swear	swear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swear** *in a quote* | present | I | Bloody autoplay *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn off** *in a quote* | past | I | autoplay |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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 might have happened?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls:t6:2
# text = What might have happened?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	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 | **happen** | might · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Mum must have pressed play by accident twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls:t6:o1:1
# text = Mum must have pressed play by accident twice
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | must · perfect | Mum | play |  |  |  | by accident; twice *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The setting was turned back on or never saved

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls:t6:o2:1
# text = The setting was turned back on or never saved
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	obl	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | past · passive |  | the setting |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **save** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Autoplay can never be turned off in any app

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls:t6:o3:1
# text = Autoplay can never be turned off in any app
1	Autoplay	Autoplay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	app	app	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** **turn off** | can · passive |  | Autoplay |  | any app |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The tablet chose to disobey Mum on purpose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls:t6:o4:1
# text = The tablet chose to disobey Mum on purpose
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	disobey	disobey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | the tablet |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **disobey** | to-infinitive | the tablet *not said here* | Mum |  | purpose |  |  | tree rules |

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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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