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title: mum we're at the cenotaph and everyone went quiet?? whats happening — Quiet places and solemn moments · tree and pragmatics
description: mum we're at the cenotaph and everyone went quiet?? whats happening Test 12 · ★ of lesson 224 «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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 12 · ★ · Quiet places and solemn moments

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mum we're at the cenotaph and everyone went quiet?? whats happening

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum, everyone, whats · **What happens:** be, go, happen · **To what, where:** cenotaph

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 224 «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t12:1
# text = mum we're at the cenotaph and everyone went quiet?? whats happening
1	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cenotaph	cenotaph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
12	whats	what	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | mum |  |  | the cenotaph and whats |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | gerund | whats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It's a minute's silence, stand still and be quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t12:o1:1
# text = It's a minute's silence, stand still and be quiet
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a minute's silence |  |  | minute |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It's a game of who talks first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t12:o2:1
# text = It's a game of who talks first
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a game |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | present | a game |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It's a break, you can chat now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t12:o3:1
# text = It's a break, you can chat now
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	chat	chat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a break |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chat** *speech: other* | can | you | a break *not said here* |  |  | now |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Everyone is waiting for the bus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments:t12:o4:1
# text = Everyone is waiting for the bus
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present · progressive | Everyone |  |  |  |  | for the bus | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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