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title: kids say the boy who took ages to move at chess is "slow and dumb".… — Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, c… · tree and pragmatics
description: kids say the boy who took ages to move at chess is "slow and dumb". pass it on? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 327 «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 14 · ★ · Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion ga…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
kids say the boy who took ages to move at chess is "slow and dumb". pass it on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kids, boy · **What happens:** say, take, move, be, pass on · **To what, where:** ages, chess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 327 «Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes» 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/327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t14:1
# text = kids say the boy who took ages to move at chess is "slow and dumb". pass it on?
1	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
19	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | kids |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | the boy | ages |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* |  |  | chess |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at chess=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the boy |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pass on** | infinitive |  | chess |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, that's unkind; just use a timer if needed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t14:o1:1
# text = No, that's unkind; just use a timer if needed
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	timer	timer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | infinitive |  | a timer |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timer=Patient |
| 3 | **need** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, and refuse to play him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t14:o2:1
# text = Yes, and refuse to play him
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **play** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, tell everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t14:o3:1
# text = Yes, tell everyone
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | everyone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, he's slow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t14:o4:1
# text = Yes, he's slow
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | slow *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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