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title: Your family argues about the film every week. What would most likely… — Age ratings, scary films and choosing… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your family argues about the film every week. What would most likely help? Test 10 of lesson 26 «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts 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 10 · Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch

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Your family argues about the film every week. What would most likely help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** family · **What happens:** argue, help

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This is test 10 of lesson 26 «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts 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/arts/26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your family argues about the film every week.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:t10:1
# text = Your family argues about the film every week.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	argues	argue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Your family |  |  |  | week | about the film | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about film=Topic |

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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 would most likely help?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:t10:2
# text = What would most likely help?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | would |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Taking turns to choose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:t10:o1:1
# text = Taking turns to choose
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | turns |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Watching three films at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:t10:o2:1
# text = Watching three films at once
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  | three films |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Letting the dog choose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:t10:o3:1
# text = Letting the dog choose
1	Letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | gerund |  | the dog |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Never watching films again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:t10:o4:1
# text = Never watching films again
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **watch** | gerund |  | films |  |  | again |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme |

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