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title: Two boys giggle loudly at a funny book in the library. What would be… — Good manners and safety in town: shops… · tree and pragmatics
description: Two boys giggle loudly at a funny book in the library. What would be best? Test 3 of lesson 311 «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 3 · Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the l…

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Two boys giggle loudly at a funny book in the library. What would be best?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Two boys · **What happens:** giggle, be · **To what, where:** funny book

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This is test 3 of lesson 311 «Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaurants, the library, the doctor and crowds» 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/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Two boys giggle loudly at a funny book in the library.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t3:1
# text = Two boys giggle loudly at a funny book in the library.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	giggle	giggle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **giggle** | present | Two boys |  |  | a funny book in the library |  | loudly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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 would be best?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t3:2
# text = What would be best?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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** | would |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Read the funny bits aloud to the whole library so nobody misses out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t3:o1:1
# text = Read the funny bits aloud to the whole library so nobody misses out
1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
12	misses	miss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | the funny bits | the whole library |  |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bit=Topic to library=Recipient |
| 2 | **miss out** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Throw the book away so they stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t3:o2:1
# text = Throw the book away so they stop
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw away** | imperative | you *not said here* | the book |  |  |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Share the joke quietly, because others are reading

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t3:o3:1
# text = Share the joke quietly, because others are reading
1	Share	share	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | imperative | you *not said here* | the joke |  |  |  | quietly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | present · progressive | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Laugh louder so everyone can join in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town:t3:o4:1
# text = Laugh louder so everyone can join in
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
3	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **join in** | can | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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