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title: «the head was a fighter too?? no way». Why might Mr Pryce tell Jake… — Jake and the head teacher · tree and pragmatics
description: «the head was a fighter too?? no way». Why might Mr Pryce tell Jake this? Test 7 of lesson 373 «Jake and the head teacher» 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 7 · Jake and the head teacher

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«the head was a fighter too?? no way». Why might Mr Pryce tell Jake this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** head, Mr · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** fighter, Jake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 of lesson 373 «Jake and the head teacher» 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/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «the head was a fighter too?? no way».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher:t7:1
# text = «the head was a fighter too?? no way».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fighter	fighter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the head | a fighter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* Why might Mr Pryce tell Jake this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher:t7:2
# text = Why might Mr Pryce tell Jake this?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Pryce	Pryce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | might | Mr |  | this Jake |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jake=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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To give him fighting tips

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher:t7:o1:1
# text = To give him fighting tips
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | fighting tips | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tip=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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To show him that change is possible

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher:t7:o2:1
# text = To show him that change is possible
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | to-infinitive |  |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | that change |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To show off about all the fights he won when he was a boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher:t7:o3:1
# text = To show off about all the fights he won when he was a boy
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show off** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about all fights | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about fight=Topic |
| 2 | **win** | past | he | all fights *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | past | he | a boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To make him laugh at teachers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher:t7:o4:1
# text = To make him laugh at teachers
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 2 | **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at teachers | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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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