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title: "dunno where me keys are, heaven knows" — what does the speaker know? — Soft words for hard things: religion a… · tree and pragmatics
description: "dunno where me keys are, heaven knows" — what does the speaker know? Test 3 of lesson 32 «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 3 · Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure…

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"dunno where me keys are, heaven knows" — what does the speaker know?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** me, heaven, speaker · **What happens:** be, know · **To what, where:** dunno · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 of lesson 32 «Soft words for hard things: religion and fate and failure and mistakes» 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/32-religion-fate-failure/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t3:1
# text = "dunno where me keys are, heaven knows" — what does the speaker know?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	dunno	dunno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	2	nmod	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | me |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | heaven | dunno |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | present · do-support | the speaker |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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 keys are in a church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t3:o1:1
# text = The keys are in a church
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the keys |  |  | a church |  |  | tree rules |

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

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They do not know where the keys are

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t3:o2:1
# text = They do not know where the keys are
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | the keys |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The keys are upstairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t3:o3:1
# text = The keys are upstairs
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the keys |  |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A neighbour round the corner has the keys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:euphemisms:32-religion-fate-failure:t3:o4:1
# text = A neighbour round the corner has the keys
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a neighbour round the corner | the keys |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient |

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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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