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title: no time for brekkie, i'll just eat at lunch — Getting ready for school and the schoo… · tree and pragmatics
description: no time for brekkie, i'll just eat at lunch Test 16 · ★ of lesson 253 «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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 16 · ★ · Getting ready for school and the school day

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no time for brekkie, i'll just eat at lunch

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** i · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** lunch

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This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 253 «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day:t16:1
# text = no time for brekkie, i'll just eat at lunch
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	brekkie	brekkie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | future | i |  |  | lunch | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fine, have sweets on the walk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day:t16:o1:1
# text = Fine, have sweets on the walk
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Grab something quick, your body needs fuel to think

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day:t16:o2:1
# text = Grab something quick, your body needs fuel to think
1	Grab	grab	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | imperative | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | your body | fuel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | fuel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Have a can of energy drink instead, that's even better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day:t16:o3:1
# text = Have a can of energy drink instead, that's even better
1	Have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | imperative | you *not said here* | a energy drink |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fine, kids don't need breakfast, only grown-ups do

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day:t16:o4:1
# text = Fine, kids don't need breakfast, only grown-ups do
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | Fine kids | breakfast |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breakfast=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present | grown ups |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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