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title: stuck on question 3, been on it ages — Tests, exams and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: stuck on question 3, been on it ages Test 11 · ★ of lesson 255 «Tests, exams and mistakes» 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 11 · ★ · Tests, exams and mistakes

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stuck on question 3, been on it ages

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** stick, be · **To what, where:** question, ages

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 255 «Tests, exams and mistakes» 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/255-tests-exams-and-mistakes/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes:t11:1
# text = stuck on question 3, been on it ages
1	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | participle |  |  |  | question and ages |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on question=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | ages |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Leave the rest blank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes:t11:o1:1
# text = Leave the rest blank
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	blank	blank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | the rest |  |  |  | blank *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Look at your neighbour's answer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes:t11:o2:1
# text = Look at your neighbour's answer
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at your neighbour's answer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at answer=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** |  | your neighbour |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Stay on it till the bell, you'll crack it eventually

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes:t11:o3:1
# text = Stay on it till the bell, you'll crack it eventually
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	till	till	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	10	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* |  |  | it | till the bell |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location |
| 2 | **crack** | future | you | bell |  |  |  | eventually *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Move on and come back at the end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:255-tests-exams-and-mistakes:t11:o4:1
# text = Move on and come back at the end
1	Move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move on** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | at the end |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |

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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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