--- title: «Miss, Freddie took 2 grapes not 1!!» Tales or getting help? — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: «Miss, Freddie took 2 grapes not 1!!» Tales or getting help? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 369 «Getting help is not telling tales» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Getting help is not telling tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★★ · Getting help is not telling tales «Miss, Freddie took 2 grapes not 1!!» Tales or getting help? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Miss, Tales · **What happens:** take, get · **To what, where:** 2 grapes, help This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 369 «Getting help is not telling tales» 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/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* «Miss, Freddie took 2 grapes not 1!!» ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:t2:1 # text = «Miss, Freddie took 2 grapes not 1!!» 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Freddie Freddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 grapes grape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 !! !! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** *in a quote* | past | Miss and Freddie | 2 grapes | | | | 1 *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* Tales or getting help? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:t2:2 # text = Tales or getting help? 1 Tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | Tales | help | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Getting help, it's a real emergency ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:t2:o1:1 # text = Getting help, it's a real emergency 1 Getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 emergency emergency NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | | help | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | it | a real emergency | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Telling tales, it's a tiny thing ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:t2:o2:1 # text = Telling tales, it's a tiny thing 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | present | it | a tiny thing | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Getting help, because grapes matter most ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:t2:o3:1 # text = Getting help, because grapes matter most 1 Getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _ 2 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 grapes grape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 7 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 6 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | gerund | | help | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | | 2 | **matter** | present | grapes | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 4 {#o4} Neither, because it's a serious crime ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales:t2:o4:1 # text = Neither, because it's a serious crime 1 Neither neither ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | it | a serious crime | | | | neither *property* | tree rules | **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. 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