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title: Girl: «I'll just use the big knife, Mum's busy». What's the wise thi… — Going where you're not allowed · tree and pragmatics
description: Girl: «I'll just use the big knife, Mum's busy». What's the wise thing? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 349 «Going where you're not allowed» 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 8 · ★★ · Going where you're not allowed

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Girl: «I'll just use the big knife, Mum's busy». What's the wise thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, wise thing · **What happens:** use, be · **To what, where:** big knife

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 349 «Going where you're not allowed» 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/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Girl: «I'll just use the big knife, Mum's busy».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed:t8:1
# text = Girl: «I'll just use the big knife, Mum's busy».
1	Girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** *in a quote* | future | I | the big knife |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient |

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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's the wise thing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed:t8:2
# text = What's the wise thing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the wise thing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Use it quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed:t8:o1:1
# text = Use it quickly
1	Use	use	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	quickly	quickly	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* | it |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Use the bread knife instead without asking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed:t8:o2:1
# text = Use the bread knife instead without asking
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
```

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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 bread knife |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Use it with her eyes closed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed:t8:o3:1
# text = Use it with her eyes closed
1	Use	use	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	with	with	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	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | with her eyes | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **close** | participle |  | her eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Wait and ask Mum to help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:349-going-where-youre-not-allowed:t8:o4:1
# text = Wait and ask Mum to help
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | Mum |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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