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title: Chloe's crying in the nurse's room after her plaits got yanked. Lily… — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: Chloe's crying in the nurse's room after her plaits got yanked. Lily's got lunch break. What's a kind choice? Test 10 · ★★★ 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 
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Standing by a friend

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Chloe's crying in the nurse's room after her plaits got yanked. Lily's got lunch break. What's a kind choice?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Chloe, Lily · **What happens:** cry, yank, get, break, be · **To what, where:** room, plaits, kind choice

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This is test 10 · ★★★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Chloe's crying in the nurse's room after her plaits got yanked.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t10:1
# text = Chloe's crying in the nurse's room after her plaits got yanked.
1	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	plaits	plait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	yanked	yank	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Chloe *not said here* |  |  | the nurse's room |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
| 2 | **yank** | past · passive |  | Chloe's plaits |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=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:* Lily's got lunch break.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t10:2
# text = Lily's got lunch break.
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **break** |  | Lily |  |  |  |  |  | nom break «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What's a kind choice?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t10:3
# text = What's a kind choice?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Leave her, the nurse is there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t10:o1:1
# text = Leave her, the nurse is there
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  | the nurse *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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

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Stay with her for a while

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t10:o2:1
# text = Stay with her for a while
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	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	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | while | with her *= she* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tell her plaits are silly anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t10:o3:1
# text = Tell her plaits are silly anyway
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	plaits	plait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | her plaits |  |  |  |  | silly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Go and pull the boy's hair back for her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t10:o4:1
# text = Go and pull the boy's hair back for her
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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 | **pull** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the boy's hair |  |  |  | for her *= she* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hair=Theme for she=Beneficiary |

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