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title: got told off for talking but it wasn't me! gonna shout — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics
description: got told off for talking but it wasn't me! gonna shout Test 10 · ★ of lesson 254 «Classroom rules and homework» 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Classroom rules and homework

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got told off for talking but it wasn't me! gonna shout

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** tell off, talk, not be, shout · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 254 «Classroom rules and homework» 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/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t10:1
# text = got told off for talking but it wasn't me! gonna shout
1	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
12	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	dep	_	_
13	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past | it | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Stay calm and explain politely later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t10:o1:1
# text = Stay calm and explain politely later
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	explain	explain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late, politely *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shout out loud that it wasn't you, right now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t10:o2:1
# text = Shout out loud that it wasn't you, right now
1	Shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	right	right	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout out** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | loud, out *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | it | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Blame the person next to you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t10:o3:1
# text = Blame the person next to you
1	Blame	blame	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	next	next	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person | you |  |  | next *property* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sulk for the rest of the day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t10:o4:1
# text = Sulk for the rest of the day
1	Sulk	sulk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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