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title: A girl helps the teacher by marking spelling tests and sees her best… — Being trusted and what to do with thin… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl helps the teacher by marking spelling tests and sees her best friend got three wrong. What is fair? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 286 «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 2 · ★ · Being trusted and what to do with things you find

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A girl helps the teacher by marking spelling tests and sees her best friend got three wrong. What is fair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl, best friend · **What happens:** help, mark, see, get, be · **To what, where:** teacher, spelling tests · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 286 «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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/286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl helps the teacher by marking spelling tests and sees her best friend got three wrong.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find:t2:1
# text = A girl helps the teacher by marking spelling tests and sees her best friend got three wrong.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	helps	help	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	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	marking	mark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | a girl |  | the teacher |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **mark** | gerund | a girl *not said here* | spelling tests |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent test=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | present | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **get** | past | girl's best friend |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 is fair?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find:t2:2
# text = What is fair?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Give her friend extra points

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find:t2:o1:1
# text = Give her friend extra points
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	iobj	_	_
4	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | extra points | her friend |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient point=Theme |

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

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Mark them all honestly, the same for everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find:t2:o2:1
# text = Mark them all honestly, the same for everyone
1	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	flat	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Mark her friend's as right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find:t2:o3:1
# text = Mark her friend's as right
1	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Let her friend fix them first before handing them back in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find:t2:o4:1
# text = Let her friend fix them first before handing them back in
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **hand back** | gerund | her *= she* *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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