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title: «she's mardy cos she lost the match». How is she feeling? — Reading non-fiction: recount, instruct… · tree and pragmatics
description: «she's mardy cos she lost the match». How is she feeling? Test 10 of lesson 23 «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report

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«she's mardy cos she lost the match». How is she feeling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she, mardy cos, cos · **What happens:** be, lose, feel · **To what, where:** mardy cos, match

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This is test 10 of lesson 23 «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the English 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/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «she's mardy cos she lost the match».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report:t10:1
# text = «she's mardy cos she lost the match».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	mardy	mardy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | she | mardy cos |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | mardy cos | the match |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality |

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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:* How is she feeling?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report:t10:2
# text = How is she feeling?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present · progressive | cos |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Proud and happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report:t10:o1:1
# text = Proud and happy
1	Proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Grumpy and sulky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report:t10:o2:1
# text = Grumpy and sulky
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report:t10:o3:1
# text = Hungry
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Scared of the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report:t10:o4:1
# text = Scared of the dark
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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