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title: my mate says dry sand makes better castles, right? — Console games, building, crafts, music… · tree and pragmatics
description: my mate says dry sand makes better castles, right? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 303 «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» 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 right.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games

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my mate says dry sand makes better castles, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, dry sand · **What happens:** say, make · **To what, where:** better castles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 303 «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» 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/303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:t11:1
# text = my mate says dry sand makes better castles, right?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | present | dry sand | better castles |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset castle=Product |

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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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Yes, wet sand just falls apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:t11:o1:1
# text = Yes, wet sand just falls apart
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall apart** | present | wet sand |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, dry sand packs tighter and stays up longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, dry sand packs tighter and stays up longer
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	packs	pack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	tighter	tight	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pack** | present | dry sand |  |  |  |  | tight *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay up** | present | dry sand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only if you add pebbles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:t11:o3:1
# text = Only if you add pebbles
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | you | pebbles |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, damp sand holds its shape better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:t11:o4:1
# text = No, damp sand holds its shape better
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | damp sand | sand's shape |  |  |  | well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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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