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title: Your mum and dad both planned something for Saturday afternoon, and… — Clocks, calendars and planning the day · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mum and dad both planned something for Saturday afternoon, and it clashes with your party. What could have prevented this? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Clocks, calendars and planning the day

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Your mum and dad both planned something for Saturday afternoon, and it clashes with your party. What could have prevented this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum, it · **What happens:** plan, clash, prevent · **To what, where:** something, this

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 263 «Clocks, calendars and planning the day» 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/263-clocks-calendars-and-planning/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mum and dad both planned something for Saturday afternoon, and it clashes with your party.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t6:1
# text = Your mum and dad both planned something for Saturday afternoon, and it clashes with your party.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	both	both	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	planned	plan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	clashes	clash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | past | Your mum and dad | something |  |  | afternoon | both *property* | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 2 | **clash** | present | it |  |  |  |  | with your party | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with party=Co-Agent |

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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 could have prevented this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t6:2
# text = What could have prevented this?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | could · perfect |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Keeping plans in your head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t6:o1:1
# text = Keeping plans in your head
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | gerund |  | plans |  | your head |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plan=Theme in head=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Having more Saturdays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t6:o2:1
# text = Having more Saturdays
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	Saturdays	saturday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | more Saturdays |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saturday=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Not telling anyone about plans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t6:o3:1
# text = Not telling anyone about plans
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | anyone |  |  | about plans | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient about plan=Topic |

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

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Writing all events on a family calendar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:263-clocks-calendars-and-planning:t6:o4:1
# text = Writing all events on a family calendar
1	Writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | gerund |  | all events |  | a family calendar |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent event=Theme on calendar=Destination |

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