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title: At a party a boy makes fun of people who wear glasses. Most children… — Standing up for yourself, nightmares a… · tree and pragmatics
description: At a party a boy makes fun of people who wear glasses. Most children laugh. What can one child do? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 100 «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 2 · ★ · Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark

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At a party a boy makes fun of people who wear glasses. Most children laugh. What can one child do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy, people, Most children, one child · **What happens:** make, wear, laugh, do · **To what, where:** fun, party, glasses

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 100 «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» of the everyday 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/everyday/100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* At a party a boy makes fun of people who wear glasses.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark:t2:1
# text = At a party a boy makes fun of people who wear glasses.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | a boy | fun of people |  | a party |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product |
| 2 | **wear** | present | people | glasses |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent glass=Source |

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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:* Most children laugh.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark:t2:2
# text = Most children laugh.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | present | Most children |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What can one child do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark:t2:3
# text = What can one child do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can | one child |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Laugh quietly so he fits in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark:t2:o1:1
# text = Laugh quietly so he fits in
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fit in** | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Take his glasses off to hide them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark:t2:o2:1
# text = Take his glasses off to hide them
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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* | his glasses |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | glasses *= glass* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Say it is not funny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark:t2:o3:1
# text = Say it is not funny
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Make a joke about the boy's clothes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark:t2:o4:1
# text = Make a joke about the boy's clothes
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | a joke |  |  |  | about the boy's clothes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joke=Product |

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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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