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title: «Mrs Doyle won't even look at me any more». What will help most? — Confession, prayer and making amends a… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Mrs Doyle won't even look at me any more». What will help most? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 365 «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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 5 · ★★ · Confession, prayer and making amends at church

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«Mrs Doyle won't even look at me any more». What will help most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mrs · **What happens:** not look, help

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 365 «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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/365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Mrs Doyle won't even look at me any more».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church:t5:1
# text = «Mrs Doyle won't even look at me any more».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Doyle	Doyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	any	any	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | future | Mrs |  |  |  |  | at me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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 will help most?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church:t5:2
# text = What will help most?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Telling her it wasn't really that bad at all, honestly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church:t5:o1:1
# text = Telling her it wasn't really that bad at all, honestly
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | it |  |  | all |  | bad, honestly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Steady good behaviour over time, and the work he promised

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church:t5:o2:1
# text = Steady good behaviour over time, and the work he promised
1	Steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | he | the work *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent work=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Avoiding her street for good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church:t5:o3:1
# text = Avoiding her street for good
1	Avoiding	avoid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | gerund |  | her street |  |  |  | for good | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent street=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sending her a firework as a gift

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church:t5:o4:1
# text = Sending her a firework as a gift
1	Sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	firework	firework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | gerund |  | a firework | her *= she* |  |  | as a gift | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination firework=Theme |

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