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description: my mate said a kid in the park picked up a needle and now has some disease forever. should u spread it? Test 19 · ★ of lesson 228 «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 19 · ★ · Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds

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my mate said a kid in the park picked up a needle and now has some disease forever. should u spread it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, kid, u · **What happens:** say, pick up, have, spread · **To what, where:** needle, disease · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 228 «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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/228-parks-and-playgrounds/#t19).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds:t19:1
# text = my mate said a kid in the park picked up a needle and now has some disease forever. should u spread it?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | my mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pick up** | past | a kid in the park | a needle |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | a kid in the park *not said here* | some disease |  |  | now | forever *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Patient |
| 4 | **spread** | should | u | disease |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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 {#o1}

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Yes, and add more details

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds:t19:o1:1
# text = Yes, and add more details
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | more details |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yes, and say which kid it was

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds:t19:o2:1
# text = Yes, and say which kid it was
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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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* | which kid |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kid=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, scare everyone with the story

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds:t19:o3:1
# text = Yes, scare everyone with the story
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	scare	scare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare** | imperative | you *not said here* | everyone |  |  |  | with the story | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everyone=Experiencer |

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

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Just learn the lesson: never touch needles, tell an adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds:t19:o4:1
# text = Just learn the lesson: never touch needles, tell an adult
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	learn	learn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | imperative | you *not said here* | the lesson |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | infinitive |  | needles |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme needle=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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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