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title: A boy in Dublin hears a classmate call the teacher "Dad" and everyon… — Greeting adults and teachers · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Dublin hears a classmate call the teacher "Dad" and everyone giggles. What is the kind view? Test 7 of lesson 121 «Greeting adults and teachers» 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 rig
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# Test 7 · Greeting adults and teachers

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A boy in Dublin hears a classmate call the teacher "Dad" and everyone giggles. What is the kind view?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy, everyone, kind view · **What happens:** hear, giggle, be · **To what, where:** classmate call

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This is test 7 of lesson 121 «Greeting adults and teachers» 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/121-greeting-adults-and-teachers/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Dublin hears a classmate call the teacher "Dad" and everyone giggles.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers:t7:1
# text = A boy in Dublin hears a classmate call the teacher "Dad" and everyone giggles.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
16	giggles	giggle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | a boy in Dublin | a classmate call  the teacher |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus |
| 2 | **giggle** | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 the kind view?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers:t7:2
# text = What is the kind view?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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He should be punished for being rude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers:t7:o1:1
# text = He should be punished for being rude
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | should · passive |  | He |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He must stand up and apologise to the whole school in assembly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers:t7:o2:1
# text = He must stand up and apologise to the whole school in assembly
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	apologise	apologise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | must | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  | assembly |  | to the whole school | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He should never speak in class again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers:t7:o3:1
# text = He should never speak in class again
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | should | He |  |  | class | again |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It happens to almost everyone and teachers are used to it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:121-greeting-adults-and-teachers:t7:o4:1
# text = It happens to almost everyone and teachers are used to it
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | It |  |  |  |  | to everyone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | present · passive |  | teachers | it |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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