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title: Which shows kindness about growing? — Helping in the kitchen, bathroom priva… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which shows kindness about growing? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…

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Which shows kindness about growing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kindness · **What happens:** show, grow · **To what, where:** kindness

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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/321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:t8:1
# text = Which shows kindness about growing?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present |  | kindness |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Recipient |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | kindness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Telling a tall girl she looks too old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:t8:o1:1
# text = Telling a tall girl she looks too old
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | a tall girl |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient |
| 2 | **look** | present | girl |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Calling the smallest child «baby»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:t8:o2:1
# text = Calling the smallest child «baby»
1	Calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | gerund |  |  | the smallest child |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Joking about who has grown the most

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:t8:o3:1
# text = Joking about who has grown the most
1	Joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Saying nothing unkind about anyone's height or body

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing:t8:o4:1
# text = Saying nothing unkind about anyone's height or body
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
3	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | nothing |  |  |  | about anyone's height or body | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |

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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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