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title: A friend is crying before her flu jab. What advice is best? — Handling anger and everyday fears · tree and pragmatics
description: A friend is crying before her flu jab. What advice is best? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 291 «Handling anger and everyday fears» 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 7 · ★ · Handling anger and everyday fears

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A friend is crying before her flu jab. What advice is best?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, advice · **What happens:** cry, jab, be · **To what, where:** flu jab

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 291 «Handling anger and everyday fears» 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/291-handling-anger-and-fear/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A friend is crying before her flu jab.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear:t7:1
# text = A friend is crying before her flu jab.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	flu	flu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	jab	jab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | present · progressive | a friend |  |  | friend's flu jab |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before jab=Location |
| 2 | **jab** |  | friend |  |  |  |  |  | nom jab «act transitive»: poss=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 advice is best?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear:t7:2
# text = What advice is best?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Hold her breath as long as she can

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear:t7:o1:1
# text = Hold her breath as long as she can
1	Hold	hold	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	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | her breath |  |  |  | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |

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

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Tell the nurse, look away and breathe out slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear:t7:o2:1
# text = Tell the nurse, look away and breathe out slowly
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the nurse |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient |
| 2 | **look away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **breathe out** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Run around the waiting room first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear:t7:o3:1
# text = Run around the waiting room first
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	around	around	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the waiting room |  | first *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around room=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Stare at the needle the whole time so it can't surprise her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:291-handling-anger-and-fear:t7:o4:1
# text = Stare at the needle the whole time so it can't surprise her
1	Stare	stare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	surprise	surprise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time | at the needle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at needle=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **surprise** | can | needle | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=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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