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title: kids laughin at Amy's new glasses — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics
description: kids laughin at Amy's new glasses Test 12 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

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kids laughin at Amy's new glasses

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t12:1
# text = kids laughin at Amy's new glasses
1	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	laughin	laughin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Amy	Amy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Tell her not to wear them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t12:o1:1
# text = Tell her not to wear them
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **wear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Join in, glasses are funny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t12:o2:1
# text = Join in, glasses are funny
1	Join	join	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join in** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | glasses |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |

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

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Differences like glasses are normal, never a reason to tease

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t12:o3:1
# text = Differences like glasses are normal, never a reason to tease
1	Differences	difference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	tease	tease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Differences like glasses |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tease** | to-infinitive | Differences like glasses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hide her glasses for a joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t12:o4:1
# text = Hide her glasses for a joke
1	Hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  | for a joke | 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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