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title: left my coat at the park, «mum'll just buy another». What's fairer? — Wasting food and water · tree and pragmatics
description: left my coat at the park, «mum'll just buy another». What's fairer? Test 8 of lesson 360 «Wasting food and water» 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 8 · Wasting food and water

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left my coat at the park, «mum'll just buy another». What's fairer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** leave, buy, be · **To what, where:** coat, park, another

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This is test 8 of lesson 360 «Wasting food and water» 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/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* left my coat at the park, «mum'll just buy another».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet:t8:1
# text = left my coat at the park, «mum'll just buy another».
1	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past |  | my coat |  | the park |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent coat=Theme at park=Location |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | future | mum | another |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme |

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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 fairer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet:t8:2
# text = What's fairer?
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	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	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 |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Help pay for it and look after the next one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet:t8:o1:1
# text = Help pay for it and look after the next one
1	Help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for it | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | after the next one |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Blame your friend for not reminding you to take it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet:t8:o2:1
# text = Blame your friend for not reminding you to take it
1	Blame	blame	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	reminding	remind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | imperative | you *not said here* | your friend |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **remind** *speech: other* | gerund | you *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | friend |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ask for a dearer one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet:t8:o3:1
# text = Ask for a dearer one
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dearer	dear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a dearer one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Say it was stolen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet:t8:o4:1
# text = Say it was stolen
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	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	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 clause=Topic |
| 2 | **steal** | past · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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