--- title: Gran: «I was just as wild at your age». What is Gran telling Maddie? — Maddie the tomboy · tree and pragmatics description: Gran: «I was just as wild at your age». What is Gran telling Maddie? Test 6 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Maddie the tomboy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/) / t6 # Test 6 · Maddie the tomboy Gran: «I was just as wild at your age». What is Gran telling Maddie? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, Gran · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** age, Maddie · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 6 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Gran: «I was just as wild at your age». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t6:1 # text = Gran: «I was just as wild at your age». 1 Gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | at your age | wild *property* | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* What is Gran telling Maddie? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t6:2 # text = What is Gran telling Maddie? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | Gran | | Maddie | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Maddie should stay indoors ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t6:o1:1 # text = Maddie should stay indoors 1 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | should | Maddie | | | | | indoors *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} She never liked climbing anything at all as a girl ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t6:o2:1 # text = She never liked climbing anything at all as a girl 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 climbing climb VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 nmod _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **like** | past | She | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **climb** *not said to happen* | gerund | She *not said here* | anything | | all | | as a girl | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location anything=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} She wants Maddie to fight ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t6:o3:1 # text = She wants Maddie to fight 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | She | Maddie | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fight** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Maddie *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Being wild as a kid is nothing new ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy:t6:o4:1 # text = Being wild as a kid is nothing new 1 Being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 cop _ _ 2 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 csubj _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ 8 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | as a kid; wild *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | nothing | | | | | tree rules | **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. 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