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title: baby wants my yo-yo — Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, c… · tree and pragmatics
description: baby wants my yo-yo Test 9 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion ga…

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baby wants my yo-yo

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** baby · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** yo yo

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t9:1
# text = baby wants my yo-yo
1	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	yo	yo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | baby | my yo yo |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot yo=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 {#o1}

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Let him have it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t9:o1:1
# text = Let him have it
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Let him if you watch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t9:o2:1
# text = Let him if you watch
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **watch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Keep it away; the string can strangle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t9:o3:1
# text = Keep it away; the string can strangle
1	Keep	keep	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	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep away** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **strangle** | can | the string |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cut the string shorter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts:t9:o4:1
# text = Cut the string shorter
1	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | the string |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset string=Product |

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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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