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description: A boy in Seattle has stopped seeing friends and enjoying anything for a month. What is true? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 213 «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 1 · ★ · Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters

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A boy in Seattle has stopped seeing friends and enjoying anything for a month. What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** stop, see, enjoy, be · **To what, where:** boy, friends, anything

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 213 «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» 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/213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Seattle has stopped seeing friends and enjoying anything for a month.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t1:1
# text = A boy in Seattle has stopped seeing friends and enjoying anything for a month.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Seattle	Seattle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present · perfect · passive |  | a boy in Seattle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  | friends |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |
| 3 | **enjoy** | gerund |  | anything |  |  | month |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t1:2
# text = What is true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He should tell an adult, because long sadness can be helped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t1:o1:1
# text = He should tell an adult, because long sadness can be helped
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | He |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 2 | **help** | can · passive |  | long sadness |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He is just lazy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t1:o2:1
# text = He is just lazy
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Children never get depression

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t1:o3:1
# text = Children never get depression
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	depression	depression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | present | Children | depression |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer depression=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It will surely pass if he hides it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t1:o4:1
# text = It will surely pass if he hides it
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | future | It |  |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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