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title: In a British school, what might children call their male teacher? — Questions, group work and the adults a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a British school, what might children call their male teacher? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 256 «Questions, group work and the adults at school» 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 4 · ★ · Questions, group work and the adults at school

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In a British school, what might children call their male teacher?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** children · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** male teacher, British school · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 256 «Questions, group work and the adults at school» 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/256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t4:1
# text = In a British school, what might children call their male teacher?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
7	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | might | children | children's male teacher |  | a British school |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme teacher=Result |

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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 {#o1}

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Mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t4:o1:1
# text = Mate
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Sir

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t4:o2:1
# text = Sir
1	Sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Teacher Smith

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t4:o3:1
# text = Teacher Smith
1	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His first name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t4:o4:1
# text = His first name
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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