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title: new kid on our street talks funny, gonna laugh at him — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics
description: new kid on our street talks funny, gonna laugh at him Test 14 · ★ 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 14 · ★ · Greeting neighbours and new people

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new kid on our street talks funny, gonna laugh at him

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** new kid · **What happens:** talk, laugh

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This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t14:1
# text = new kid on our street talks funny, gonna laugh at him
1	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	dep	_	_
10	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | new kid on our street |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **laugh** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at kid | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Laugh, it's just a joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t14:o1:1
# text = Laugh, it's just a joke
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tell everyone to avoid him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t14:o2:1
# text = Tell everyone to avoid him
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	iobj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | everyone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |
| 2 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Copy his voice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t14:o3:1
# text = Copy his voice
1	Copy	copy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | imperative | you *not said here* | his voice |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |

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

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Say hi instead, laughing at people hurts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people:t14:o4:1
# text = Say hi instead, laughing at people hurts
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	1	obj	_	_
3	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hi=Topic |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at people | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hurt** | present | laughing |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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