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title: Your partner in Edinburgh gets an answer wrong and looks embarrassed… — Questions, group work and the adults a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your partner in Edinburgh gets an answer wrong and looks embarrassed. Why help kindly? Test 9 · ★ 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Questions, group work and the adults at school

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Your partner in Edinburgh gets an answer wrong and looks embarrassed. Why help kindly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** partner, you · **What happens:** get, look, help · **To what, where:** answer

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your partner in Edinburgh gets an answer wrong and looks embarrassed.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t9:1
# text = Your partner in Edinburgh gets an answer wrong and looks embarrassed.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Your partner in Edinburgh | a answer |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | present | Your partner in Edinburgh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | embarrassed *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:* Why help kindly?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t9:2
# text = Why help kindly?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	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** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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They will give you their answers later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t9:o1:1
# text = They will give you their answers later
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | They | their answers | you |  |  | late *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient answer=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It is the only way to finish quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t9:o2:1
# text = It is the only way to finish quickly
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the only way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **finish** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Kind help makes the teacher give you a prize

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t9:o3:1
# text = Kind help makes the teacher give you a prize
1	Kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	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	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Kind help | the teacher |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | the teacher *not said here* | a prize | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient prize=Theme |

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

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Kind help makes them willing to keep trying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school:t9:o4:1
# text = Kind help makes them willing to keep trying
1	Kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Kind help | them *= they* |  |  |  | willing *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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