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title: Every Friday at 3 the same lot kick off. What could a smart teacher… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics
description: Every Friday at 3 the same lot kick off. What could a smart teacher change? Test 7 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 wrong.
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# Test 7 · Adults who help and adults who don't

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Every Friday at 3 the same lot kick off. What could a smart teacher change?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** kick off · **To what, where:** same lot

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Every Friday at 3 the same lot kick off.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t7:1
# text = Every Friday at 3 the same lot kick off.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	kick	kick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick off** | present |  | the same lot |  |  | friday |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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 could a smart teacher change?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t7:2
# text = What could a smart teacher change?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	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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Cancel Fridays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t7:o1:1
# text = Cancel Fridays
1	Cancel	Cancel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Fridays	Friday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The time, place, or who stands near whom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t7:o2:1
# text = The time, place, or who stands near whom
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | the time and place |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near whom=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, it's just Friday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t7:o3:1
# text = Nothing, it's just Friday
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Give them a lot more homework so they're too busy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t7:o4:1
# text = Give them a lot more homework so they're too busy
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | lot more homework | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient homework=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |

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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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