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title: got a bad mark, im just dumb — Marks, group work, help at school and… · tree and pragmatics
description: got a bad mark, im just dumb Test 16 · ★ of lesson 307 «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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 16 · ★ · Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills

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got a bad mark, im just dumb

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** bad mark

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This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 307 «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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/307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:t16:1
# text = got a bad mark, im just dumb
1	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	im	im	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  | a bad mark and im |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus |

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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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Copy next time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:t16:o1:1
# text = Copy next time
1	Copy	copy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hide it from your parents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:t16:o2:1
# text = Hide it from your parents
1	Hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | from your parents | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from parent=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, marks show how clever you are

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:t16:o3:1
# text = Yes, marks show how clever you are
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | marks |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |

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

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No, it shows what to practise next

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills:t16:o4:1
# text = No, it shows what to practise next
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	practise	practise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	next	next	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **practise** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | next *property* | tree rules |

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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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