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title: Little kid at after-school club, crying: «Who smashed our tower?» Th… — Accidents told too late · tree and pragmatics
description: Little kid at after-school club, crying: «Who smashed our tower?» The boy did, cross. What should he do? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 343 «Accidents told too late» 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 r
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# Test 6 · ★ · Accidents told too late

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Little kid at after-school club, crying: «Who smashed our tower?» The boy did, cross. What should he do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Little kid, boy · **What happens:** cry, smash, cross, do · **To what, where:** tower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 343 «Accidents told too late» 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/343-accidents-told-too-late/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Little kid at after-school club, crying: «Who smashed our tower?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:343-accidents-told-too-late:t6:1
# text = Little kid at after-school club, crying: «Who smashed our tower?»
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	smashed	smash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Little kid at school club |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smash** *in a quote* | past |  | our tower |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=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.

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*Sentence 2:* The boy did, cross.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:343-accidents-told-too-late:t6:2
# text = The boy did, cross.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past · do-support | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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*Sentence 3:* What should he do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:343-accidents-told-too-late:t6:3
# text = What should he do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **do** | should | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Own up, say sorry and help rebuild it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:343-accidents-told-too-late:t6:o1:1
# text = Own up, say sorry and help rebuild it
1	Own	own	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **say** *speech: apologize* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **rebuild** | infinitive | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Say towers are boring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:343-accidents-told-too-late:t6:o2:1
# text = Say towers are boring
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | towers |  |  |  |  | boring *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Walk away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:343-accidents-told-too-late:t6:o3:1
# text = Walk away
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Say a big kid did it and ran off outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:343-accidents-told-too-late:t6:o4:1
# text = Say a big kid did it and ran off outside
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | past | a big kid | it |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **run off** | past | a big kid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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