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title: Your brother is in trouble for breaking a vase. Why not tease him? — Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your brother is in trouble for breaking a vase. Why not tease him? Test 9 · ★ 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; Mova's choice was righ
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# Test 9 · ★ · Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters

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Your brother is in trouble for breaking a vase. Why not tease him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** brother, trouble, you · **What happens:** be, break, not tease · **To what, where:** trouble, vase, him

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your brother is in trouble for breaking a vase.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t9:1
# text = Your brother is in trouble for breaking a vase.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Your brother |  |  | trouble |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | gerund | trouble *not said here* | a vase |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vase=Patient |

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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:* Why not tease him?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t9:2
# text = Why not tease him?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	tease	tease	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tease** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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He deserves to feel worse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t9:o1:1
# text = He deserves to feel worse
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** | present | He |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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You would want kindness when it is your turn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t9:o2:1
# text = You would want kindness when it is your turn
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | would | You | kindness |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kindness=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | kindness | your turn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Teasing him somehow helps to fix the broken vase

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t9:o3:1
# text = Teasing him somehow helps to fix the broken vase
1	Teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tease** | gerund |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | somehow *property* | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | present | Teasing |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **fix** | to-infinitive | Teasing *not said here* | the broken vase |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent vase=Patient |
| 4 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Parents like it when you tease

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud:t9:o4:1
# text = Parents like it when you tease
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tease	tease	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|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 | **tease** | present | Parents like it |  |  |  |  |  | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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