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title: «my mum took a day off for that meeting about the bus shelter lads,… — What fights cost at home · tree and pragmatics
description: «my mum took a day off for that meeting about the bus shelter lads, cost her loads». Who was really at fault? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 376 «What fights cost at home» 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 9 · ★ · What fights cost at home

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«my mum took a day off for that meeting about the bus shelter lads, cost her loads». Who was really at fault?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** take off, cost, be · **To what, where:** loads, fault

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 376 «What fights cost at home» 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/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «my mum took a day off for that meeting about the bus shelter lads, cost her loads».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:376-what-fights-cost-at-home:t9:1
# text = «my mum took a day off for that meeting about the bus shelter lads, cost her loads».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	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 | **take off** *in a quote* | past | my mum |  |  |  | day | for that meeting about the shelter lads | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cost** *in a quote* | past |  | mum's loads |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme load=Value |

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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 was really at fault?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:376-what-fights-cost-at-home:t9:2
# text = Who was really at fault?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fault	fault	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** | past |  |  |  | fault |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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The boys who picked on Sam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:376-what-fights-cost-at-home:t9:o1:1
# text = The boys who picked on Sam
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | past | the boys |  |  |  |  | on Sam | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on sam=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sam's mum, for going to the school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:376-what-fights-cost-at-home:t9:o2:1
# text = Sam's mum, for going to the school
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund | Sam's mum *not said here* |  |  | the school |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The bus driver, for not stopping the boys on the bus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:376-what-fights-cost-at-home:t9:o3:1
# text = The bus driver, for not stopping the boys on the bus
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stop** | gerund | the bus driver *not said here* | the boys |  | the bus |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality boy=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sam, for being picked on so much

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:376-what-fights-cost-at-home:t9:o4:1
# text = Sam, for being picked on so much
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick on** | gerund · passive |  | Sam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» |

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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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