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title: «she's a tomboy, why would anyone fancy HER». What's true? — Boys who look at Maddie oddly · tree and pragmatics
description: «she's a tomboy, why would anyone fancy HER». What's true? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 389 «Boys who look at Maddie oddly» 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 right.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Boys who look at Maddie oddly

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«she's a tomboy, why would anyone fancy HER». What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** she, anyone · **What happens:** be, fancy · **To what, where:** tomboy, HER

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 389 «Boys who look at Maddie oddly» 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/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «she's a tomboy, why would anyone fancy HER».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly:t6:1
# text = «she's a tomboy, why would anyone fancy HER».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tomboy	tomboy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
11	HER	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | she | a tomboy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fancy** *in a quote* | would | anyone | HER *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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 true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly:t6:2
# text = What's true?
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	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Anyone can be liked, tomboys too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly:t6:o1:1
# text = Anyone can be liked, tomboys too
1	Anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	tomboys	tomboy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | can · passive |  | Anyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only girly girls get crushes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly:t6:o2:1
# text = Only girly girls get crushes
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	girly	girly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	crushes	crush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | girly girls | crushes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crush=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tomboys never like anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly:t6:o3:1
# text = Tomboys never like anyone
1	Tomboys	tomboy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	1	advmod	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Boys only stare at girls they hate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly:t6:o4:1
# text = Boys only stare at girls they hate
1	Boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	stare	stare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** | present | Boys |  |  |  |  | at girls | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at girl=Theme |
| 2 | **hate** | present | Boys *= boy* | girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |

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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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