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description: Your little brother walks into your room without knocking. What is a good way to deal with it? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 102 «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Gratitude, helping at home and privacy

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Your little brother walks into your room without knocking. What is a good way to deal with it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** little brother · **What happens:** walk, knock, be, deal · **To what, where:** room, good way

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 102 «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» 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/102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your little brother walks into your room without knocking.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy:t6:1
# text = Your little brother walks into your room without knocking.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | Your little brother |  |  |  |  | into your room *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result |
| 2 | **knock** | gerund | Your little brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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:* What is a good way to deal with it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy:t6:2
# text = What is a good way to deal with it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a good way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **deal** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with way | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Lock him out of the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy:t6:o1:1
# text = Lock him out of the house
1	Lock	lock	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	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  | the house |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shout at him until he cries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy:t6:o2:1
# text = Shout at him until he cries
1	Shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at him *= he* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Barge into his room to show how it feels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy:t6:o3:1
# text = Barge into his room to show how it feels
1	Barge	barge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **feel** | present | room |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Kindly ask him to knock and wait next time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:102-gratitude-helping-at-home-privacy:t6:o4:1
# text = Kindly ask him to knock and wait next time
1	Kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | him *= he* |  |  | kindly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **knock** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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