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description: Before giving a talk, a boy in Auckland feels very nervous. What helps him most? Test 8 · ★ 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 wr
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# Test 8 · ★ · Questions, group work and the adults at school

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Before giving a talk, a boy in Auckland feels very nervous. What helps him most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** give, feel, help · **To what, where:** talk, boy

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Before giving a talk, a boy in Auckland feels very nervous.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t8:1
# text = Before giving a talk, a boy in Auckland feels very nervous.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund | a boy in Auckland *not said here* | a talk |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | present | a boy in Auckland |  |  |  |  | nervous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 helps him most?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t8:2
# text = What helps him most?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Looking only at the floor so he does not see faces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t8:o1:1
# text = Looking only at the floor so he does not see faces
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
11	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the floor | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at floor=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | present · do-support | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Whispering so nobody can hear mistakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t8:o2:1
# text = Whispering so nobody can hear mistakes
1	Whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	obl	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | so nobody | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | can | Whispering | mistakes |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mistake=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Talking very fast to get it over with

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t8:o3:1
# text = Talking very fast to get it over with
1	Talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get over** | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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

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Practising the talk beforehand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t8:o4:1
# text = Practising the talk beforehand
1	Practising	practise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | gerund |  | the talk |  |  |  | beforehand *property* | tree rules |

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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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