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title: older kids want me in their car, driver's only 17 and goes mad fast — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: older kids want me in their car, driver's only 17 and goes mad fast Test 14 · ★ of lesson 215 «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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 wrong.
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# Test 14 · ★ · Speaking up, saying no and growing up

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older kids want me in their car, driver's only 17 and goes mad fast

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** older kids, driver · **What happens:** want, be, go · **To what, where:** me, car, 17

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 215 «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:t14:1
# text = older kids want me in their car, driver's only 17 and goes mad fast
1	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | older kids | me |  | kids's car |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | driver | 17 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | present | older kids *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Go but sit in the back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:t14:o1:1
# text = Go but sit in the back
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the back |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in back=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Go if it's a short trip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:t14:o2:1
# text = Go if it's a short trip
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | it | a short trip |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Go so they think you're cool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:t14:o3:1
# text = Go so they think you're cool
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Say no and call your parent for a lift

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up:t14:o4:1
# text = Say no and call your parent for a lift
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	1	discourse	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lift	lift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your parent |  |  |  | for a lift | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent parent=Theme for lift=Beneficiary |

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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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