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description: Two months after arriving, a boy from Poland understands much more English. What helped most? Test 5 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Classroom rules and homework

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Two months after arriving, a boy from Poland understands much more English. What helped most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** arrive, understand, help · **To what, where:** most

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Two months after arriving, a boy from Poland understands much more English.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t5:1
# text = Two months after arriving, a boy from Poland understands much more English.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	understands	understand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	nsubj	_	_
13	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | gerund | a boy from Poland *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **understand** | present | a boy from Poland |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What helped most?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t5:2
# text = What helped most?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past |  | most |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Beneficiary |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nobody talking to him so he had to listen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t5:o1:1
# text = Nobody talking to him so he had to listen
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
2	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | gerund |  |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | Nobody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **listen** | to-infinitive | Nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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

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Classmates who were patient and spoke slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t5:o2:1
# text = Classmates who were patient and spoke slowly
1	Classmates	classmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Classmates |  |  |  |  | patient *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Classmates *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Classmates who laughed whenever he got a word wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t5:o3:1
# text = Classmates who laughed whenever he got a word wrong
1	Classmates	classmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | Classmates |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past | he | a word |  |  |  | whenever, wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Everyone speaking faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t5:o4:1
# text = Everyone speaking faster
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn talk-37.5 «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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