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title: baby wont stop crying, can i give him a lil shake — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics
description: baby wont stop crying, can i give him a lil shake Test 11 · ★ of lesson 113 «Babies, button batteries and magnets» 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 11 · ★ · Babies, button batteries and magnets

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baby wont stop crying, can i give him a lil shake

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** wont stop, baby · **What happens:** cry, give · **To what, where:** lil shake, him

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 113 «Babies, button batteries and magnets» 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/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t11:1
# text = baby wont stop crying, can i give him a lil shake
1	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	lil	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	shake	shake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | wont stop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | can | baby and wont stop | a lil shake | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shake=Theme |

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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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Yes, gently shaking calms babies down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t11:o1:1
# text = Yes, gently shaking calms babies down
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	nsubj	_	_
5	calms	calm	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **calm down** | present |  | babies |  |  |  | down *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if you hold his head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, if you hold his head
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | you | his head |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |

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

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No, never shake a baby, get a grown-up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t11:o3:1
# text = No, never shake a baby, get a grown-up
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **shake** | imperative | you *not said here* | a baby |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a grown up |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer up=Stimulus |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only for a few seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets:t11:o4:1
# text = Only for a few seconds
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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