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title: police asked how tall he was, dunno — Remembering details · tree and pragmatics
description: police asked how tall he was, dunno Test 12 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» 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 12 · Remembering details

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police asked how tall he was, dunno

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** police, he · **What happens:** ask, be · **To what, where:** dunno · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» 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/18-remembering-details/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t12:1
# text = police asked how tall he was, dunno
1	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dunno	dunno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | police | dunno |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |

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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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Make up a number

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t12:o1:1
# text = Make up a number
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | imperative | you *not said here* | a number |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme number=Pivot |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Say what your friend said

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t12:o2:1
# text = Say what your friend said
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | your friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Say he was very tall just to be safe, police like that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t12:o3:1
# text = Say he was very tall just to be safe, police like that
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Compare him to someone you know, like dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t12:o4:1
# text = Compare him to someone you know, like dad
1	Compare	compare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | to someone; like dad | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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