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title: disco, everyone's laughing at a kid's dancing. which actually helps — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: disco, everyone's laughing at a kid's dancing. which actually helps Test 8 · ★★★ 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 8 · ★★★ · Standing by a friend

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disco, everyone's laughing at a kid's dancing. which actually helps

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** everyone, disco, kid · **What happens:** laugh, help, dance · **To what, where:** dancing

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This is test 8 · ★★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t8:1
# text = disco, everyone's laughing at a kid's dancing. which actually helps
1	disco	disco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | present · progressive | everyone |  |  | a kid's dancing |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **help** | present | disco |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dance** |  | a kid |  |  |  |  |  | nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

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

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Go and dance next to him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t8:o1:1
# text = Go and dance next to him
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	dance	dance	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	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 | **dance** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Laugh louder so he stops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t8:o2:1
# text = Laugh louder so he stops
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tell him to sit down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t8:o3:1
# text = Tell him to sit down
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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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* |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sit down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Film it for the group chat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t8:o4:1
# text = Film it for the group chat
1	Film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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