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description: apparently the new girl doesn't eat meat cos her family's in a weird cult, someone said. what's probably just a rumour? Test 18 · ★ 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 e
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# Test 18 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences

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apparently the new girl doesn't eat meat cos her family's in a weird cult, someone said. what's probably just a rumour?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** new girl, someone · **What happens:** not eat, say, be · **To what, where:** meat, weird cult, rumour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 18 · ★ 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/#t18).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:t18:1
# text = apparently the new girl doesn't eat meat cos her family's in a weird cult, someone said. what's probably just a rumour?
1	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cult	cult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | the new girl | meat |  | a weird cult |  | cos girl's family | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a rumour |  |  |  | probably *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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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That families have customs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:t18:o1:1
# text = That families have customs
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | that families | customs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That she doesn't eat meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:t18:o2:1
# text = That she doesn't eat meat
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | she | That |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That vegetarians eat vegetables

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:t18:o3:1
# text = That vegetarians eat vegetables
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	vegetarians	vegetarian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | that vegetarians | vegetables |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vegetable=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The cult; people are vegetarian for health, belief or animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences:t18:o4:1
# text = The cult; people are vegetarian for health, belief or animals
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cult	cult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | people | the cult *not said here* |  |  |  | for health and belief or animals; vegetarian *property* | 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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