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title: going thru changes growing up, too embarrassed to ask anything — Growing up, honesty and manners · tree and pragmatics
description: going thru changes growing up, too embarrassed to ask anything Test 15 · ★ of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» 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 was right.
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# Test 15 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners

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going thru changes growing up, too embarrassed to ask anything

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** changes · **What happens:** go, grow up, ask · **To what, where:** changes, anything

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This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» 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/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:t15:1
# text = going thru changes growing up, too embarrassed to ask anything
1	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	thru	through	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	3	case	_	_
3	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | changes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through change=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **grow up** | gerund | changes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  | anything |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient |

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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 {#o1}

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Never ask anyone, just figure it all out on your own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:t15:o1:1
# text = Never ask anyone, just figure it all out on your own
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	figure	figure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | anyone |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
| 2 | **figure out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  | your own |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Ask a trusted adult or school nurse, it's normal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:t15:o2:1
# text = Ask a trusted adult or school nurse, it's normal
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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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* |  | a trusted adult or school nurse |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 2 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | nurse |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hide it from everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:t15:o3:1
# text = Hide it from everyone
1	Hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | everyone |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from everyone=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only ask online strangers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners:t15:o4:1
# text = Only ask online strangers
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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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* | online strangers |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient |

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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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