--- title: «finders keepers, the ball came over our fence». What's right? — Our street against theirs · tree and pragmatics description: «finders keepers, the ball came over our fence». What's right? Test 4 of lesson 382 «Our street against theirs» 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/382-our-street-against-theirs/t4/) [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/) / [Our street against theirs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/) / t4 # Test 4 · Our street against theirs «finders keepers, the ball came over our fence». What's right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** finders keepers · **What happens:** come over, be · **To what, where:** fence This is test 4 of lesson 382 «Our street against theirs» 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/382-our-street-against-theirs/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* «finders keepers, the ball came over our fence». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs:t4:1 # text = «finders keepers, the ball came over our fence». 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 finders finder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 3 keepers keeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 over over ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come over** *in a quote* | past | finders keepers | our fence | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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's right? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs:t4:2 # text = What's right? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Hide it till they forget about it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs:t4:o1:1 # text = Hide it till they forget about it 1 Hide hide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 till till SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 forget forget VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **forget** | present | they | | | | | about it | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Keep it, they're from Station Road ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs:t4:o2:1 # text = Keep it, they're from Station Road 1 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 Station Station PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | they | | | Station Road | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Give it back to them ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs:t4:o3:1 # text = Give it back to them 1 Give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give back** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | them *= they* | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to they=Recipient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Sell it at school for a quid ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs:t4:o4:1 # text = Sell it at school for a quid 1 Sell sell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 quid quid NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sell** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | school | | for a quid | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at school=Asset | **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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