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title: Which is the most polite at the cinema? — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is the most polite at the cinema? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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 10 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…

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Which is the most polite at the cinema?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** cinema

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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/297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t10:1
# text = Which is the most polite at the cinema?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	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	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cinema	cinema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Unwrapping sweets before the film starts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t10:o1:1
# text = Unwrapping sweets before the film starts
1	Unwrapping	unwrap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unwrap** | gerund |  | sweets |  |  | before the film |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | present | Unwrapping |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Unwrapping sweets in the quietest scene

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t10:o2:1
# text = Unwrapping sweets in the quietest scene
1	Unwrapping	unwrap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	quietest	quiet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unwrap** | gerund |  | sweets |  | the quietest scene |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Kicking the seat in front for fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t10:o3:1
# text = Kicking the seat in front for fun
1	Kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | gerund |  | the seat |  | front |  | for fun | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent seat=Patient in front=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Talking quietly about the plot as it happens on screen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t10:o4:1
# text = Talking quietly about the plot as it happens on screen
1	Talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the plot; quietly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about plot=Topic |
| 2 | **happen** | present | it |  |  | screen |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on screen=Location |

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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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