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title: new fam moved in next door, can we do something — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics
description: new fam moved in next door, can we do something Test 10 · ★ of lesson 123 «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Greeting neighbours and new people

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new fam moved in next door, can we do something

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** new fam · **What happens:** move, do · **To what, where:** new fam, next door, something

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 123 «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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/123-neighbours-and-new-people/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t10:1
# text = new fam moved in next door, can we do something
1	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	something	something	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 | **move** | participle |  | new fam *not said here* |  | next door |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in door=Trajectory |
| 2 | **do** | can | new fam | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Watch them from the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t10:o1:1
# text = Watch them from the window
1	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  | the window |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ask them to be quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t10:o2:1
# text = Ask them to be quiet
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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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* |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wait until they come to you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t10:o3:1
# text = Wait until they come to you
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | they |  | you |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Take a card or some biscuits to welcome them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t10:o4:1
# text = Take a card or some biscuits to welcome them
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | a card or some biscuits |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
| 2 | **welcome** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | card |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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