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title: Kieran's gran shrugs again. Who else could Kieran tell? — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics
description: Kieran's gran shrugs again. Who else could Kieran tell? Test 9 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 9 · Adults who help and adults who don't

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Kieran's gran shrugs again. Who else could Kieran tell?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** gran · **What happens:** shrug, tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Kieran's gran shrugs again.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t9:1
# text = Kieran's gran shrugs again.
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shrugs	shrug	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrug** | present | Kieran's gran |  |  |  | again |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Who else could Kieran tell?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t9:2
# text = Who else could Kieran tell?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	else	else	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Only Jake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t9:o1:1
# text = Only Jake
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nobody, Gran is the only one who ever listens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t9:o2:1
# text = Nobody, Gran is the only one who ever listens
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	listens	listen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Nobody | the only one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** | present | the only one |  |  |  | ever |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The Station Road boys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t9:o3:1
# text = The Station Road boys
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A teacher, Mr Pryce or the community officer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont:t9:o4:1
# text = A teacher, Mr Pryce or the community officer
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	Pryce	Pryce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	community	community	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

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