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# Test 2 · ★ · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents

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«nobody said take shoes off so I kept 'em on» What would have been better?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nobody · **What happens:** say, take off, keep, be · **To what, where:** shoes, 'em · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 28 «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» of the Chinese street 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/chinese-street/28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t2:1
# text = «nobody said take shoes off so I kept 'em on» What would have been better?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take off** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | shoes |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | past | nobody | 'em *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | good *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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Carry your shoes in with you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t2:o1:1
# text = Carry your shoes in with you
1	Carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | imperative | you *not said here* | your shoes |  |  |  | in you | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shoe=Value in you=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Take off your socks too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t2:o2:1
# text = Take off your socks too
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | imperative | you *not said here* | your socks |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Theme |

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

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Take them off anyway and wear the slippers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t2:o3:1
# text = Take them off anyway and wear the slippers
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wear	wear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the slippers |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent slipper=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Keep them on, nobody asked you, so it's totally fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:28-at-the-friends-home-what-to-say-to-the-parents:t2:o4:1
# text = Keep them on, nobody asked you, so it's totally fine
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep on** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | nobody |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fine, totally *property* | 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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