--- title: You want to tell a joke to a friend with a hearing aid in a noisy ha… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics description: You want to tell a joke to a friend with a hearing aid in a noisy hall. What helps most? Test 7 · ★ 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/t7/) [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/) / [Growing, seeing and hearing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing You want to tell a joke to a friend with a hearing aid in a noisy hall. What helps most? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** want, tell, help · **To what, where:** joke, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* You want to tell a joke to a friend with a hearing aid in a noisy hall. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t7:1 # text = You want to tell a joke to a friend with a hearing aid in a noisy hall. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 hearing hearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | You | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | a joke | a friend | | | with a hearing aid in a noisy hall | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Topic to friend=Recipient | 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. *Sentence 2:* What helps most? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t7:2 # 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 _ _ ``` | # | 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 {#o1} Write nothing down and just hope ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t7:o1:1 # text = Write nothing down and just hope 1 Write write VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 1 obj _ _ 3 down down ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write down** | imperative | you *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | | 2 | **hope** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Face them and speak clearly ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t7:o2:1 # text = Face them and speak clearly 1 Face face VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **face** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | you *not said here* | | | | | clearly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Shout to them from across the hall ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t7:o3:1 # text = Shout to them from across the hall 1 Shout shout VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 across across ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | | them *= they* | the hall | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Whisper it behind their back ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t7:o4:1 # text = Whisper it behind their back 1 Whisper whisper ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ 3 behind behind ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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