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title: A boy changes the background and settings on the shared class laptop… — Classroom rules and homework · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy changes the background and settings on the shared class laptop. Why is this wrong? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Classroom rules and homework

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A boy changes the background and settings on the shared class laptop. Why is this wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, this · **What happens:** change, share, be · **To what, where:** background

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy changes the background and settings on the shared class laptop.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t6:1
# text = A boy changes the background and settings on the shared class laptop.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	background	background	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	settings	setting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
11	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	laptop	laptop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | a boy | the background and settings on the shared class laptop |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent background=Patient |
| 2 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why is this wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t6:2
# text = Why is this wrong?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Settings can never be changed back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t6:o1:1
# text = Settings can never be changed back
1	Settings	setting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change back** | can · passive |  | Settings |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It makes the laptop much faster for the next person

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t6:o2:1
# text = It makes the laptop much faster for the next person
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	laptop	laptop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the laptop |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material laptop=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Laptops do not have settings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t6:o3:1
# text = Laptops do not have settings
1	Laptops	laptop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	settings	setting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | Laptops | settings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent setting=Patient |

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

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School devices are shared and used only as allowed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:254-classroom-rules-and-homework:t6:o4:1
# text = School devices are shared and used only as allowed
1	School	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present · passive |  | School devices |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **allow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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