--- title: someone said school's shut tmrw, its true right? — Rumours and gossip · tree and pragmatics description: someone said school's shut tmrw, its true right? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 202 «Rumours and gossip» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Rumours and gossip](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/202-rumours-and-gossip/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Rumours and gossip someone said school's shut tmrw, its true right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** shut tmrw · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 202 «Rumours and gossip» 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/202-rumours-and-gossip/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip:t9:1 # text = someone said school's shut tmrw, its true right? 1 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tmrw tmrw NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | someone | school's shut tmrw | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tmrw=Topic | 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} Yes, stay home to be safe ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip:t9:o1:1 # text = Yes, stay home to be safe 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 stay stay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Yes, tell everyone you know so that nobody turns up by mistake ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip:t9:o2:1 # text = Yes, tell everyone you know so that nobody turns up by mistake 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 iobj _ _ 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 _ _ 7 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 10 mark _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 10 nsubj _ _ 10 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | everyone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient | | 2 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **turn up** | present | nobody | | | | | by mistake | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by mistake=Location | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Check with a teacher, the school website or your parents ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip:t9:o3:1 # text = Check with a teacher, the school website or your parents 1 Check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 website website NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | with a teacher and the school website or your parents | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yes, everyone's saying it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:202-rumours-and-gossip:t9:o4:1 # text = Yes, everyone's saying it 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | everyone | it | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | **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. 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