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title: at my mate's for tea, gonna grab the biggest bits first — A guest at the table, and manners on t… · tree and pragmatics
description: at my mate's for tea, gonna grab the biggest bits first Test 15 · ★★ of lesson 128 «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» 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 15 · ★★ · A guest at the table, and manners on the phone

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at my mate's for tea, gonna grab the biggest bits first

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** grab · **To what, where:** biggest bits, tea

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This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 128 «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» 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/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone:t15:1
# text = at my mate's for tea, gonna grab the biggest bits first
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	dep	_	_
9	grab	grab	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | imperative | you *not said here* | the biggest bits |  | my mate's tea |  | first *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |

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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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Take from everyone's plate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone:t15:o1:1
# text = Take from everyone's plate
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | everyone's plate |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from plate=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eat straight from the pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone:t15:o2:1
# text = Eat straight from the pot
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the pot |  | straight *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from pot=Source |

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

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Wait to be served or take a fair share

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone:t15:o3:1
# text = Wait to be served or take a fair share
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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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 | **serve** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute» |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a fair share |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Grab first before they're all gone, the host won't mind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone:t15:o4:1
# text = Grab first before they're all gone, the host won't mind
1	Grab	grab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
3	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | all, gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **mind** | future | the host | Grab *not said here* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grab=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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