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title: «look at her lunch, stinks lol» – said loudly at the table. What wou… — Teasing and laughing at others · tree and pragmatics
description: «look at her lunch, stinks lol» – said loudly at the table. What would be kind instead? Test 6 of lesson 346 «Teasing and laughing at others» 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · Teasing and laughing at others

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«look at her lunch, stinks lol» – said loudly at the table. What would be kind instead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** look, stink, say, be · **To what, where:** table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 of lesson 346 «Teasing and laughing at others» 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/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «look at her lunch, stinks lol» – said loudly at the table.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others:t6:1
# text = «look at her lunch, stinks lol» – said loudly at the table.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	stinks	stink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	–	-	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at her lunch | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lunch=Theme |
| 2 | **stink** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  | the table |  | loudly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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 kind instead?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others:t6:2
# text = What would be kind instead?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | instead, kind *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Ask what it is and maybe try some

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others:t6:o1:1
# text = Ask what it is and maybe try some
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	ccomp	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive | you *not said here* | some |  |  |  | maybe *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Move to another table, away from the smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others:t6:o2:1
# text = Move to another table, away from the smell
1	Move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | another table |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to table=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hold your nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others:t6:o3:1
# text = Hold your nose
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | your nose |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Laugh with the others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others:t6:o4:1
# text = Laugh with the others
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the others | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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