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title: Isla, door slammed: «you're SO unfair, I hate this house!» What help… — Staying up, screens and coming home late · tree and pragmatics
description: Isla, door slammed: «you're SO unfair, I hate this house!» What helps most later? Test 3 of lesson 348 «Staying up, screens and coming home 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 right.
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# Test 3 · Staying up, screens and coming home late

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Isla, door slammed: «you're SO unfair, I hate this house!» What helps most later?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Isla door, you, I · **What happens:** slam, be, hate, help · **To what, where:** house

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This is test 3 of lesson 348 «Staying up, screens and coming home 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/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Isla, door slammed: «you're SO unfair, I hate this house!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t3:1
# text = Isla, door slammed: «you're SO unfair, I hate this house!»
1	Isla	Isla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slammed	slam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	SO	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slam** | past | Isla door |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | unfair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hate** *in a quote* | present | I | this house |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |

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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 helps most later?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t3:2
# text = What helps most later?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Shout louder next time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t3:o1:1
# text = Shout louder next time
1	Shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Calm down, say sorry and talk with Mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t3:o2:1
# text = Calm down, say sorry and talk with Mum
1	Calm	calm	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	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	talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **calm down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: apologize* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Mum | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with mum=Co-Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Stay in her room for days until Mum gives in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t3:o3:1
# text = Stay in her room for days until Mum gives in
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | her room | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
| 2 | **give in** | present | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Use the tablet secretly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t3:o4:1
# text = Use the tablet secretly
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | the tablet |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Patient |

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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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