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title: mate during prayers pulls a face, «don't laugh, don't laugh…» you sn… — Giggles, skipping and the collection p… · tree and pragmatics
description: mate during prayers pulls a face, «don't laugh, don't laugh…» you snort. Best move? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 364 «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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 rig
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# Test 1 · ★ · Giggles, skipping and the collection plate

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mate during prayers pulls a face, «don't laugh, don't laugh…» you snort. Best move?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, you · **What happens:** pull, not laugh, snort · **To what, where:** face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 364 «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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/364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* mate during prayers pulls a face, «don't laugh, don't laugh…» you snort.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate:t1:1
# text = mate during prayers pulls a face, «don't laugh, don't laugh…» you snort.
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	during	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	…	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	snort	snort	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | mate during prayers | a face |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **laugh** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **laugh** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **snort** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Best move?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate:t1:2
# text = Best move?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Laugh louder, it's funny anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate:t1:o1:1
# text = Laugh louder, it's funny anyway
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | anyway, funny *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Look away, breathe, say sorry after

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate:t1:o2:1
# text = Look away, breathe, say sorry after
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **breathe** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: apologize* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent after=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pull a face back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate:t1:o3:1
# text = Pull a face back
1	Pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull back** | imperative | you *not said here* | a face |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Leave the church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate:t1:o4:1
# text = Leave the church
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | the church |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=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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