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title: A girl in Perth cannot eat pork for religious reasons, and her frien… — Video calls and visiting a friend's ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Perth cannot eat pork for religious reasons, and her friend's dad serves sausages. What should she say? Test 7 · ★★ 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
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Video calls and visiting a friend's house

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A girl in Perth cannot eat pork for religious reasons, and her friend's dad serves sausages. What should she say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl, dad · **What happens:** not eat, serve, say · **To what, where:** pork, sausages · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in Perth cannot eat pork for religious reasons, and her friend's dad serves sausages.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t7:1
# text = A girl in Perth cannot eat pork for religious reasons, and her friend's dad serves sausages.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Perth	Perth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	sausages	sausage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | can | a girl in Perth | pork |  |  |  | for religious reasons | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pork=Patient |
| 2 | **serve** | present | girl's friend's dad | sausages |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Attribute |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should she say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t7:2
# text = What should she say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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"Your food is wrong"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t7:o1:1
# text = "Your food is wrong"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Your food |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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"No, thank you, I can't eat that"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t7:o2:1
# text = "No, thank you, I can't eat that"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | can | I | that |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Leave the table without a word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t7:o3:1
# text = Leave the table without a word
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | the table |  |  |  | without a word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Nothing, and eat it anyway to be polite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t7:o4:1
# text = Nothing, and eat it anyway to be polite
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | infinitive |  | it |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | polite *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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