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title: Why did the new boy start skipping lunch? — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did the new boy start skipping lunch? Test 15 · ★ of lesson 226 «Compliments and respecting differences» 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 15 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences

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Why did the new boy start skipping lunch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** new boy start · **What happens:** do, skip · **To what, where:** new boy start, lunch

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This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 226 «Compliments and respecting differences» 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/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:t15:1
# text = Why did the new boy start skipping lunch?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the new boy start |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Eventuality |
| 2 | **skip** | gerund | the new boy start *not said here* | lunch |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Agent |

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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}

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He wanted to lose weight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:t15:o1:1
# text = He wanted to lose weight
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | weight |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He just wasn't hungry at lunchtime any more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:t15:o2:1
# text = He just wasn't hungry at lunchtime any more
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lunchtime	lunchtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	any	any	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | He |  |  | lunchtime |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lunch was too early

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:t15:o3:1
# text = Lunch was too early
1	Lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	early	early	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** | past | Lunch |  |  |  |  | early *property* | tree rules |

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

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He was being mocked for his food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:t15:o4:1
# text = He was being mocked for his food
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	mocked	mock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mock** | past · passive |  | He |  |  |  | for his food | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for food=Attribute |

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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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