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title: Mr Pryce gets parents from both streets in for tea and biscuits. Why… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr Pryce gets parents from both streets in for tea and biscuits. Why would that help? Test 11 of lesson 392 «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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 11 · Adults who help and adults who don't

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Mr Pryce gets parents from both streets in for tea and biscuits. Why would that help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mr Pryce, that · **What happens:** get, help · **To what, where:** parents, streets

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This is test 11 of lesson 392 «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mr Pryce gets parents from both streets in for tea and biscuits.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t11:1
# text = Mr Pryce gets parents from both streets in for tea and biscuits.
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	Pryce	Pryce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Mr Pryce | parents |  | both streets |  | in tea and biscuits | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent parent=Theme from street=Source |

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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:* Why would that help?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t11:2
# text = Why would that help?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | would | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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Parents can agree together how to stop the fights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t11:o1:1
# text = Parents can agree together how to stop the fights
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | can | Parents |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Parents *not said here* | the fights |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fight=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It's just a party with tea and biscuits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t11:o2:1
# text = It's just a party with tea and biscuits
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a party and biscuits |  |  |  | with tea | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Biscuits make people forget all about the fights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t11:o3:1
# text = Biscuits make people forget all about the fights
1	Biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Biscuits | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the fights; all *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It gets parents out of the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t11:o4:1
# text = It gets parents out of the house
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | It | parents |  | the house |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus |

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