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title: «they shoved Freddie in the bins, let's go batter them». What's the… — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: «they shoved Freddie in the bins, let's go batter them». What's the better move? Test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 370 «Standing by a friend» 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 1 · ★★★ · Standing by a friend

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«they shoved Freddie in the bins, let's go batter them». What's the better move?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they, 's, better move · **What happens:** shove, let, go, batter, be · **To what, where:** Freddie, bins, 's · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 370 «Standing by a friend» 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «they shoved Freddie in the bins, let's go batter them».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t1:1
# text = «they shoved Freddie in the bins, let's go batter them».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shoved	shove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	batter	batter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shove** *in a quote* | past | they | Freddie |  | the bins |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | they *not said here* | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **batter** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | bins *= bin* |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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 the better move?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t1:2
# text = What's the better move?
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Laugh, he deserved it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t1:o1:1
# text = Laugh, he deserved it
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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

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

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Help Freddie and take him to a teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t1:o2:1
# text = Help Freddie and take him to a teacher
1	Help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Freddie |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freddie=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Freddie | a teacher |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to teacher=Destination |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Shove them in the bins too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t1:o3:1
# text = Shove them in the bins too
1	Shove	shove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shove** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  | the bins |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bin=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Go and batter them together as a gang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t1:o4:1
# text = Go and batter them together as a gang
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	batter	batter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **batter** | infinitive | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | as a gang; together *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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