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title: lowkey the mom was crying right, she was like "why did you do that"… — Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: lowkey the mom was crying right, she was like "why did you do that" to dad? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 6 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

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lowkey the mom was crying right, she was like "why did you do that" to dad?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lowkey mom, mom · **What happens:** cry, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» of the books 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/books/1088-pg29021-part13/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t6:1
# text = lowkey the mom was crying right, she was like "why did you do that" to dad?
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · progressive | the lowkey mom |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past · do-support | mom |  |  |  |  | to dad; do *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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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yeah she kept saying it was wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t6:o1:1
# text = yeah she kept saying it was wrong
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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yeah she kept yelling that he was the worst dad and wouldn't stop crying for hours

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t6:o2:1
# text = yeah she kept yelling that he was the worst dad and wouldn't stop crying for hours
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | he | the worst dad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **stop** | would | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | she *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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yeah she kept saying he was wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t6:o3:1
# text = yeah she kept saying he was wrong
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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yeah she was crying the whole time and begging him to bring the kids back home

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t6:o4:1
# text = yeah she was crying the whole time and begging him to bring the kids back home
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · progressive | she |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | she *not said here* |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  | the kids |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument kid=Destination |

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