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title: «chloe asked MADDIE for football help?? after the plaits thing??» Wh… — Maddie and Chloe's plaits · tree and pragmatics
description: «chloe asked MADDIE for football help?? after the plaits thing??» What does it show? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 380 «Maddie and Chloe's plaits» 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 8 · ★ · Maddie and Chloe's plaits

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«chloe asked MADDIE for football help?? after the plaits thing??» What does it show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** chloe, thing · **What happens:** ask, help, show · **To what, where:** MADDIE · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 380 «Maddie and Chloe's plaits» 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/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «chloe asked MADDIE for football help?? after the plaits thing??»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits:t8:1
# text = «chloe asked MADDIE for football help?? after the plaits thing??»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	chloe	chloe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	MADDIE	MADDIE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	??	??	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	plaits	plait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | chloe |  | MADDIE |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **help** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  | after the plaits thing | for football | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:* What does it show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits:t8:2
# text = What does it show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Chloe secretly wanted to get her back later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits:t8:o1:1
# text = Chloe secretly wanted to get her back later
1	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Chloe |  |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **get back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Chloe *not said here* | Chloe |  |  |  | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Maddie bullied her into saying it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits:t8:o2:1
# text = Maddie bullied her into saying it
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bullied	bully	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bully** | past | Maddie |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Maddie *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Trust can come back slowly after a proper sorry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits:t8:o3:1
# text = Trust can come back slowly after a proper sorry
1	Trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sorry	sorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | can | Trust |  |  |  | after a proper sorry | slowly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Chloe has a really bad memory for things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits:t8:o4:1
# text = Chloe has a really bad memory for things
1	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Chloe | a bad memory |  |  |  | for things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient |

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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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