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title: Jake's been good for a month but a dinner lady still says «watch him… — Jake and the head teacher · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake's been good for a month but a dinner lady still says «watch him, that one». Why? Test 9 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 9 · Jake and the head teacher

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Jake's been good for a month but a dinner lady still says «watch him, that one». Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jake, dinner lady · **What happens:** be, say, watch · **To what, where:** Jake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jake's been good for a month but a dinner lady still says «watch him, that one».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher:t9:1
# text = Jake's been good for a month but a dinner lady still says «watch him, that one».
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | participle | Jake |  |  |  | month | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a dinner lady |  |  |  | still |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **watch** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Jake |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher:t9:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Jake has not really changed at all, he's only pretending

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher:t9:o1:1
# text = Jake has not really changed at all, he's only pretending
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | present · perfect | Jake |  |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pretend** | present · progressive | Jake |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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People's view changes slower than behaviour does

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher:t9:o2:1
# text = People's view changes slower than behaviour does
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | People's view |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | behaviour |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **view** |  | People |  |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She has been told to say it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher:t9:o3:1
# text = She has been told to say it
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | She |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dinner ladies never like anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher:t9:o4:1
# text = Dinner ladies never like anyone
1	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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