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title: Why might a younger child wait for another day to play with an older… — Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard mome… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a younger child wait for another day to play with an older brother? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 292 «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» 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 4 · ★ · Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments

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Why might a younger child wait for another day to play with an older brother?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** younger child · **What happens:** wait, play

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 292 «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» 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/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments:t4:1
# text = Why might a younger child wait for another day to play with an older brother?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | might | a younger child |  |  |  | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | a younger child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a older brother | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with brother=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Older brothers must always be alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments:t4:o1:1
# text = Older brothers must always be alone
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | Older brothers |  |  |  |  | alone, always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Younger children are not allowed to play with older ones at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments:t4:o2:1
# text = Younger children are not allowed to play with older ones at all
1	Younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | present · passive |  | Younger children |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Younger children *not said here* |  |  | all |  | with older ones | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with one=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Older siblings never like younger ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments:t4:o3:1
# text = Older siblings never like younger ones
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	siblings	sibling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Older siblings need time with friends their own age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments:t4:o4:1
# text = Older siblings need time with friends their own age
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	siblings	sibling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Older siblings |  |  |  | time |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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