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title: A classmate is angry and shouting at you. What helps most? — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics
description: A classmate is angry and shouting at you. What helps most? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 14 «Reading faces and voices» 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 5 · ★ · Reading faces and voices

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A classmate is angry and shouting at you. What helps most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** classmate · **What happens:** be, shout, help

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 14 «Reading faces and voices» 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/14-faces-and-voices/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A classmate is angry and shouting at you.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t5:1
# text = A classmate is angry and shouting at you.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a classmate |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | a classmate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at you | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* What helps most?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t5:2
# text = What helps most?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Stepping up very close to them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t5:o1:1
# text = Stepping up very close to them
1	Stepping	step	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shouting back even louder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t5:o2:1
# text = Shouting back even louder
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout back** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Speaking calmly and quietly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t5:o3:1
# text = Speaking calmly and quietly
1	Speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pulling a face at them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:14-faces-and-voices:t5:o4:1
# text = Pulling a face at them
1	Pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | gerund |  | a face |  |  |  | at them *= they* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent face=Theme at they=Asset |

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