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title: Gran: «Why d'you keep pulling that girl's hair, pet?» What's the hon… — Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily · tree and pragmatics
description: Gran: «Why d'you keep pulling that girl's hair, pet?» What's the honest answer Tom gave? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 387 «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» 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 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily

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Gran: «Why d'you keep pulling that girl's hair, pet?» What's the honest answer Tom gave?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** honest answer, Tom · **What happens:** keep, pull, be, give · **To what, where:** hair, honest answer

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 387 «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» 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/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Gran: «Why d'you keep pulling that girl's hair, pet?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily:t8:1
# text = Gran: «Why d'you keep pulling that girl's hair, pet?»
1	Gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	d'you	d'you	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	discourse	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull** *in a quote* | gerund |  | girl's hair and pet |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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:* What's the honest answer Tom gave?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily:t8:2
# text = What's the honest answer Tom gave?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the honest answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | Tom | the honest answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Her hair was in his way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily:t8:o1:1
# text = Her hair was in his way
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Her hair |  |  | his way |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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She asked him to do it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily:t8:o2:1
# text = She asked him to do it
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | She |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Everybody does it, Gran, it's normal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily:t8:o3:1
# text = Everybody does it, Gran, it's normal
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Everybody | it |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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He didn't know how to talk to her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily:t8:o4:1
# text = He didn't know how to talk to her
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **talk** | to-infinitive |  |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |

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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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