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title: Why is it better to tell the family at once if you break their lamp? — Video calls and visiting a friend's ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is it better to tell the family at once if you break their lamp? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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 5 · ★★ · Video calls and visiting a friend's house

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Why is it better to tell the family at once if you break their lamp?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** it, you · **What happens:** be, tell, break · **To what, where:** family, lamp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t5:1
# text = Why is it better to tell the family at once if you break their lamp?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | the family |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient |
| 3 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | their lamp |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Because they will pay you for being honest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t5:o1:1
# text = Because they will pay you for being honest
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
8	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | future | they | you |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Because lamps can always be glued back together perfectly afterwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t5:o2:1
# text = Because lamps can always be glued back together perfectly afterwards
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	glued	glue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glue back** | can · passive |  | lamps |  |  |  | afterwards, always, perfectly, together *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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

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Hiding it is dishonest, and the family needs to know

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t5:o3:1
# text = Hiding it is dishonest, and the family needs to know
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Hiding |  |  |  |  | dishonest *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | present | the family |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the family *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Because then they cannot be cross at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t5:o4:1
# text = Because then they cannot be cross at all
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | can | they |  |  | all | then | cross *property* | 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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