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title: A boy in Wellington says rainy days are useless without a tablet. Wh… — Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Wellington says rainy days are useless without a tablet. What is a good idea? Test 3 · ★ 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 option; Mo
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# Test 3 · ★ · Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters

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A boy in Wellington says rainy days are useless without a tablet. What is a good idea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy, rainy days · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** good idea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Wellington says rainy days are useless without a tablet.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t3:1
# text = A boy in Wellington says rainy days are useless without a tablet.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a boy in Wellington |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | rainy days |  |  |  |  | without a tablet; useless *property* | tree rules |

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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 a good idea?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t3:2
# text = What is a good idea?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Use the time to build, read, draw or cook something

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t3:o1:1
# text = Use the time to build, read, draw or cook something
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cook	cook	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **build** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **read** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **draw** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cook** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent something=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sleep until the rain stops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t3:o2:1
# text = Sleep until the rain stops
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	until	until	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | Sleep until the rain |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Complain until it is sunny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t3:o3:1
# text = Complain until it is sunny
1	Complain	complain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complain** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | sunny *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stare out the window all day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t3:o4:1
# text = Stare out the window all day
1	Stare	stare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the window |  |  | day |  | 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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