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title: Mum, on nights all week, says «I'm grand, love» but nods off mid-sen… — Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum, on nights all week, says «I'm grand, love» but nods off mid-sentence twice. What's really going on? Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 61 «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★

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Mum, on nights all week, says «I'm grand, love» but nods off mid-sentence twice. What's really going on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum · **What happens:** say, be, nod off, go on · **To what, where:** mid-sentence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 61 «Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★» 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/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum, on nights all week, says «I'm grand, love» but nods off mid-sentence twice.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on:t10:1
# text = Mum, on nights all week, says «I'm grand, love» but nods off mid-sentence twice.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	nods	nod	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	mid-sentence	mid-sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Mum |  |  |  |  | love *vocative*; grand *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **nod off** | present | Mum *not said here* | mid-sentence |  |  |  | twice *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:* What's really going on?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on:t10:2
# text = What's really going on?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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She is completely fine and wide awake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on:t10:o1:1
# text = She is completely fine and wide awake
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | She |  |  |  |  | completely, fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | She *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She is pretending so you'll go out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on:t10:o2:1
# text = She is pretending so you'll go out
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | present · progressive | She |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** | future | you |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She is bored of talking to you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on:t10:o3:1
# text = She is bored of talking to you
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | She |  |  |  |  | bored *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund | She *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent |

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

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She is very tired from her shifts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on:t10:o4:1
# text = She is very tired from her shifts
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	shifts	shift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | She |  |  | her shifts |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shift** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=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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