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title: new neighbour says come see the puppies inside — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics
description: new neighbour says come see the puppies inside Test 13 · ★ 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 13 · ★ · Greeting neighbours and new people

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new neighbour says come see the puppies inside

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** new neighbour · **What happens:** say, come, see · **To what, where:** puppies · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t13:1
# text = new neighbour says come see the puppies inside
1	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | new neighbour |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | new neighbour *not said here* | the puppies |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer puppy=Stimulus |

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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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Go in quickly, puppies are cute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t13:o1:1
# text = Go in quickly, puppies are cute
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	cute	cute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | puppies |  |  |  |  | cute *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Climb up to the window and look through it at the puppies instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t13:o2:1
# text = Climb up to the window and look through it at the puppies instead
1	Climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the window |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the puppies; through window; instead *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through it=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Ask your parent first, never go in without them knowing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t13:o3:1
# text = Ask your parent first, never go in without them knowing
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
```

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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* |  | your parent |  |  | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **go in** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without them *= they* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Go in if he seems nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t13:o4:1
# text = Go in if he seems nice
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | he |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: 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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