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title: Babysitter text: "bit of a meltdown at bedtime but she's asleep now"… — Soft words for hard things: relations… · tree and pragmatics
description: Babysitter text: "bit of a meltdown at bedtime but she's asleep now" What happened at bedtime? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 9 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: relations and family and child…

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Babysitter text: "bit of a meltdown at bedtime but she's asleep now" What happened at bedtime?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** be, happen · **To what, where:** bedtime

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 14 «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms 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/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t9:1
# text = Babysitter text: "bit of a meltdown at bedtime but she's asleep now" What happened at bedtime?
1	Babysitter	babysitter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	meltdown	meltdown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
18	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | she |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past |  |  |  | bedtime | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at bedtime=Location |

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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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The heating broke down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t9:o1:1
# text = The heating broke down
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heating	heating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break down** | past | the heating |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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She had a tantrum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t9:o2:1
# text = She had a tantrum
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tantrum	tantrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | She | a tantrum |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tantrum=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Her ice lolly melted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t9:o3:1
# text = Her ice lolly melted
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	lolly	lolly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | participle | Her ice |  |  |  |  | lolly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She fell asleep straight away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:14-family-and-behaviour:t9:o4:1
# text = She fell asleep straight away
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | She |  |  |  |  | asleep, away *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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