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title: Lily brought cold pasta for breakfast and some girls are saying it's… — Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily brought cold pasta for breakfast and some girls are saying it's weird and gross, should i join in Test 19 of lesson 38 «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 19 · Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Lily brought cold pasta for breakfast and some girls are saying it's weird and gross, should i join in

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lily, girls, pasta, i · **What happens:** bring, say, be, join in · **To what, where:** cold pasta · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 19 of lesson 38 «Simple cooking and a healthy breakfast» 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/38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast/#t19).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t19:1
# text = Lily brought cold pasta for breakfast and some girls are saying it's weird and gross, should i join in
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pasta	pasta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | Lily | cold pasta |  |  |  | for breakfast | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pasta=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | some girls |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | pasta |  |  |  |  | weird *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | pasta *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **join in** | should | i |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, so she brings cereal next time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t19:o1:1
# text = Yes, so she brings cereal next time
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	cereal	cereal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | she | cereal |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cereal=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, people eat different breakfasts and laughing at hers is unkind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t19:o2:1
# text = No, people eat different breakfasts and laughing at hers is unkind
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	breakfasts	breakfast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | people | different breakfasts |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at hers *= she* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | laughing |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only behind her back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t19:o3:1
# text = Yes, but only behind her back
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, because pasta is not breakfast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast:t19:o4:1
# text = Yes, because pasta is not breakfast
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	pasta	pasta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | pasta | breakfast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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