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title: «ooh look, Princess Lily's got her tidy pencils out». What's this? — Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels · tree and pragmatics
description: «ooh look, Princess Lily's got her tidy pencils out». What's this? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 367 «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» 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 8 · ★ · Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels

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«ooh look, Princess Lily's got her tidy pencils out». What's this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, this · **What happens:** look, get, be · **To what, where:** got tidy pencils

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 367 «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» 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/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «ooh look, Princess Lily's got her tidy pencils out».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels:t8:1
# text = «ooh look, Princess Lily's got her tidy pencils out».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	ooh	ooh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pencils	pencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Princess Lily's got tidy pencils |  |  |  | out *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pencil=Attribute |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels:t8:2
# text = What's this?
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	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A kind compliment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels:t8:o1:1
# text = A kind compliment
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Sneering at her for something good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels:t8:o2:1
# text = Sneering at her for something good
1	Sneering	sneer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at her *= she*; for something | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A joke Lily asked for

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels:t8:o3:1
# text = A joke Lily asked for
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a joke |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A fair warning to her about losing her pencils

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels:t8:o4:1
# text = A fair warning to her about losing her pencils
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	pencils	pencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund | a fair warning to her *not said here* | her pencils |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Eventuality |

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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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