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title: Teacher: «Maddie, what got you that medal?» Best answer? — Respect: how it is earned · tree and pragmatics
description: Teacher: «Maddie, what got you that medal?» Best answer? Test 10 of lesson 385 «Respect: how it is earned» 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 10 · Respect: how it is earned

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Teacher: «Maddie, what got you that medal?» Best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Maddie · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** medal, you

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This is test 10 of lesson 385 «Respect: how it is earned» 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/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Teacher: «Maddie, what got you that medal?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned:t10:1
# text = Teacher: «Maddie, what got you that medal?»
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	medal	medal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Maddie | that medal | you |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary medal=Theme |

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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:* Best answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned:t10:2
# text = Best answer?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Being scarier than the other runners at the start

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned:t10:o1:1
# text = Being scarier than the other runners at the start
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	scarier	scarey	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | than the other runners at the start; scarey *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Elbowing people at the start

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned:t10:o2:1
# text = Elbowing people at the start
1	Elbowing	elbow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elbow** | gerund |  | people |  | the start |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Patient at start=Location |

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

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Getting up early and training for weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned:t10:o3:1
# text = Getting up early and training for weeks
1	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | gerund |  |  |  |  | week | early *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Luck, nothing else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned:t10:o4:1
# text = Luck, nothing else
1	Luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	conj	_	_
4	else	else	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

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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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