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title: late for class cos the bus, oh and my laces broke, what do i say — Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry · tree and pragmatics
description: late for class cos the bus, oh and my laces broke, what do i say Test 12 · ★ of lesson 126 «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» 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 12 · ★ · Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry

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late for class cos the bus, oh and my laces broke, what do i say

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** laces, i · **What happens:** break, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 126 «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» 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/126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry:t12:1
# text = late for class cos the bus, oh and my laces broke, what do i say
1	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	laces	lace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | my laces |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | i |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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Stand at the door until asked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry:t12:o1:1
# text = Stand at the door until asked
1	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Say nothing and sneak in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry:t12:o2:1
# text = Say nothing and sneak in
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sneak	sneak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
```

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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* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |

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

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Say sorry I'm late and sit down quietly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry:t12:o3:1
# text = Say sorry I'm late and sit down quietly
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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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* | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit down** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Tell the whole story loudly so everyone knows it wasn't your fault

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry:t12:o4:1
# text = Tell the whole story loudly so everyone knows it wasn't your fault
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
8	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
```

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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* | the whole story |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **know** | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past | story | your fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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