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title: «why'd Maddie just stand there, she shoulda decked them». Who's right? — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: «why'd Maddie just stand there, she shoulda decked them». Who's right? Test 3 · ★★★ 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Standing by a friend

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«why'd Maddie just stand there, she shoulda decked them». Who's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Maddie · **What happens:** stand, deck, be · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 3 · ★★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «why'd Maddie just stand there, she shoulda decked them».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t3:1
# text = «why'd Maddie just stand there, she shoulda decked them».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shoulda	shoulda	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	decked	deck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** *in a quote* | would | Maddie |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **deck** *in a quote* | past | Maddie | them *= they* |  |  |  | shoulda *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |

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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:* Who's right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t3:2
# text = Who's right?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Maddie, standing by him stopped it without a fight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t3:o1:1
# text = Maddie, standing by him stopped it without a fight
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by Maddie | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location |
| 2 | **stop** | past | Maddie | it |  |  |  | without a fight | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Station Road boys, it was a joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t3:o2:1
# text = The Station Road boys, it was a joke
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nobody, she should have run off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t3:o3:1
# text = Nobody, she should have run off
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run off** | should · perfect | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The speaker, decking them is what works best

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t3:o4:1
# text = The speaker, decking them is what works best
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	decking	deck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
8	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
9	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deck** | gerund | the speaker *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the speaker |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | present |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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