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title: Jake says, "Show-and-tell's pointless if your thing's rubbish." Put… — Spoken language: presenting and show-a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake says, "Show-and-tell's pointless if your thing's rubbish." Put him right. Test 1 of lesson 48 «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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 1 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell

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Jake says, "Show-and-tell's pointless if your thing's rubbish." Put him right.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jake, you · **What happens:** say, put · **To what, where:** Show, Jake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 of lesson 48 «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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/48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jake says, "Show-and-tell's pointless if your thing's rubbish."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:t1:1
# text = Jake says, "Show-and-tell's pointless if your thing's rubbish."
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	pointless	pointless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jake | Show and tell |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent show=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:* Put him right.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:t1:2
# text = Put him right.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	right	right	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Jake |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Objects have to be bought, not found

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:t1:o1:1
# text = Objects have to be bought, not found
1	Objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Objects |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive · passive | Objects *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S» |
| 3 | **not** **find** | participle | Objects *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Show-and-tell is only for Year 6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:t1:o2:1
# text = Show-and-tell is only for Year 6
1	Show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tell	tell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Show and tell |  |  |  | for Year |  | tree rules |

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

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The talk matters more than the object

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:t1:o3:1
# text = The talk matters more than the object
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **matter** | present | the talk |  |  |  |  | than the object | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only exciting objects count at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:48-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell:t1:o4:1
# text = Only exciting objects count at all
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | exciting objects |  |  | all |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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