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title: Mum's text: «room STINKS. what is under your bed??» What's the fix? — Chores you skipped · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum's text: «room STINKS. what is under your bed??» What's the fix? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 350 «Chores you skipped» 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 4 · ★ · Chores you skipped

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Mum's text: «room STINKS. what is under your bed??» What's the fix?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** text, fix · **What happens:** stink, be · **To what, where:** bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 350 «Chores you skipped» 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/350-chores-you-skipped/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum's text: «room STINKS. what is under your bed??»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:t4:1
# text = Mum's text: «room STINKS. what is under your bed??»
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	STINKS	stink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stink** *in a quote* | present | Mum's text |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | your bed |  |  | tree rules |

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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 fix?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:t4:2
# text = What's the fix?
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	4	det	_	_
4	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	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 fix |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Shut the door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:t4:o1:1
# text = Shut the door
1	Shut	shut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** | imperative | you *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Say it's the dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:t4:o2:1
# text = Say it's the dog
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 a** | present | it | the dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Own up, take the socks to the wash and tidy properly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:t4:o3:1
# text = Own up, take the socks to the wash and tidy properly
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	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wash	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tidy	tidy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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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 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the socks |  | the wash and tidy |  | properly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sock=Theme to wash=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Spray perfume all round the room and shut the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped:t4:o4:1
# text = Spray perfume all round the room and shut the window
1	Spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
8	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** | past | Spray perfume round the room | the window |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent window=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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