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title: cant read the board from the back, its all blurry — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics
description: cant read the board from the back, its all blurry Test 9 · ★ 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.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

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cant read the board from the back, its all blurry

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cant · **What happens:** read · **To what, where:** board, back

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t9:1
# text = cant read the board from the back, its all blurry
1	cant	cant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	ccomp	_	_
11	blurry	blurry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past | cant | the board |  | the back |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent board=Topic from back=Source |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Tell your teacher and a parent; you may need an eye test

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t9:o1:1
# text = Tell your teacher and a parent; you may need an eye test
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	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* |  | your teacher and a parent |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 2 | **need** | may | you | a eye test |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot test=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It's normal, ignore it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t9:o2:1
# text = It's normal, ignore it
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ignore** | infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Copy from your friend forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t9:o3:1
# text = Copy from your friend forever
1	Copy	copy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from your friend; forever *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Squint harder every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t9:o4:1
# text = Squint harder every day
1	Squint	squint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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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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