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title: You can't make it to Gran's on Sunday after all. When should you tel… — Promises to family · tree and pragmatics
description: You can't make it to Gran's on Sunday after all. When should you tell her? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 358 «Promises to family» 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 9 · ★ · Promises to family

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You can't make it to Gran's on Sunday after all. When should you tell her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** not make, tell · **To what, where:** it, Gran · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 358 «Promises to family» 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/358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You can't make it to Gran's on Sunday after all.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat:t9:1
# text = You can't make it to Gran's on Sunday after all.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | can | You | it | Gran |  | after all; sunday |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |

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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:* When should you tell her?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat:t9:2
# text = When should you tell her?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | you |  | Gran |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Never, she'll guess anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat:t9:o1:1
# text = Never, she'll guess anyway
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **guess** | future | she |  |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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After she's cooked the dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat:t9:o2:1
# text = After she's cooked the dinner
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | present · passive |  | she |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary dinner=Product |

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

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As soon as you know

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat:t9:o3:1
# text = As soon as you know
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Late on Sunday afternoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat:t9:o4:1
# text = Late on Sunday afternoon
1	Late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

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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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