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title: Dad: «How many times have I told you? Off the sofa!» It's the third… — Staying up, screens and coming home late · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad: «How many times have I told you? Off the sofa!» It's the third time. What's right? Test 5 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 5 · Staying up, screens and coming home late

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Dad: «How many times have I told you? Off the sofa!» It's the third time. What's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many times, I, sofa · **What happens:** have, tell, be · **To what, where:** you, third time · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dad: «How many times have I told you?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t5:1
# text = Dad: «How many times have I told you?
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | many times |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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:* Off the sofa!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t5:2
# text = Off the sofa!»
1	Off	off	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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*Sentence 3:* It's the third time.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t5:3
# text = It's the third time.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **is a** | present | sofa | the third time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 4:* What's right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t5:4
# text = What's right?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Jump once more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t5:o1:1
# text = Jump once more
1	Jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Say the sofa is fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t5:o2:1
# text = Say the sofa is fine
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fine	fine	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 | the sofa |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Say «in a minute»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t5:o3:1
# text = Say «in a minute»
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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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* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Get down and play outside instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t5:o4:1
# text = Get down and play outside instead
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instead, outside *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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