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title: What would be wrong with telling a child "Chloe will miss you" about… — Who you are: lessons in words, not in… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would be wrong with telling a child "Chloe will miss you" about a character? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body» of the AI 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 11 · ★★ · Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body

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What would be wrong with telling a child "Chloe will miss you" about a character?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Chloe · **What happens:** be, tell, miss · **To what, where:** child · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body» of the AI 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/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:27-who-you-are-words-not-body:t11:1
# text = What would be wrong with telling a child "Chloe will miss you" about a character?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | a child |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
| 3 | **miss** *in a quote* | future | Chloe | a child *= child* |  |  |  | about a character | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nothing, Chloe really misses people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:27-who-you-are-words-not-body:t11:o1:1
# text = Nothing, Chloe really misses people
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	misses	miss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | present | Chloe | people |  |  |  | Nothing *vocative* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Chloe would be cross with you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:27-who-you-are-words-not-body:t11:o2:1
# text = Chloe would be cross with you
1	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Chloe |  |  |  |  | with you; cross *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would make Chloe too happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:27-who-you-are-words-not-body:t11:o3:1
# text = It would make Chloe too happy
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | It | Chloe |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material chloe=Product |

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

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It would mix up a story character with a real person

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:27-who-you-are-words-not-body:t11:o4:1
# text = It would mix up a story character with a real person
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	mix	mix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix up** | would | It | a story character |  |  |  | with a real person | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent character=Patient with person=Co-Patient |

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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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