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title: «maddie's not a proper girl, she don't even have plaits lol». Right… — Maddie the tomboy · tree and pragmatics
description: «maddie's not a proper girl, she don't even have plaits lol». Right or wrong? Test 1 of lesson 378 «Maddie the tomboy» 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 1 · Maddie the tomboy

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«maddie's not a proper girl, she don't even have plaits lol». Right or wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** maddie, girl · **What happens:** not be, not have · **To what, where:** proper girl, plaits

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This is test 1 of lesson 378 «Maddie the tomboy» 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/378-maddie-the-tomboy/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «maddie's not a proper girl, she don't even have plaits lol».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t1:1
# text = «maddie's not a proper girl, she don't even have plaits lol».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	maddie	maddie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
14	plaits	plait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | maddie | a proper girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | girl | plaits |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plait=Patient |

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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:* Right or wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t1:2
# text = Right or wrong?
1	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Wrong, because she's actually a boy who just has a girl's name

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t1:o1:1
# text = Wrong, because she's actually a boy who just has a girl's name
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | she | a Wrong boy |  |  |  | actually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | a Wrong boy | a girl's name |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 3 | **name** |  | a girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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Wrong, there's no one right way to be a girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t1:o2:1
# text = Wrong, there's no one right way to be a girl
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no one right way |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | no one right way *not said here* | a girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Right, girls need plaits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t1:o3:1
# text = Right, girls need plaits
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	plaits	plait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | girls | plaits |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plait=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Right, girls can't play football

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t1:o4:1
# text = Right, girls can't play football
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **play** | can | girls | football |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme |

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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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