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title: Maddie to the crowd: «show's over, get lost». Why might it work? — Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Maddie to the crowd: «show's over, get lost». Why might it work? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 393 «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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 5 · ★★ · Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help

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Maddie to the crowd: «show's over, get lost». Why might it work?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** show · **What happens:** be, lose, work · **To what, where:** Maddie

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 393 «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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/393-bystanders/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Maddie to the crowd: «show's over, get lost».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:393-bystanders:t5:1
# text = Maddie to the crowd: «show's over, get lost».
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | show | Maddie to the crowd *not said here* |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive |  | Maddie to the crowd |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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 might it work?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:393-bystanders:t5:2
# text = Why might it work?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | might | show |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

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

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Fighters calm down when nobody's watching

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:393-bystanders:t5:o1:1
# text = Fighters calm down when nobody's watching
1	Fighters	fighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	calm	calm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **calm down** | present | Fighters |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | present · progressive | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It makes the fighters angrier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:393-bystanders:t5:o2:1
# text = It makes the fighters angrier
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fighters	fighter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	angrier	angry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | the fighters |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material fighter=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Crowds always obey Maddie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:393-bystanders:t5:o3:1
# text = Crowds always obey Maddie
1	Crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	obey	obey	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | present | Crowds | Maddie |  |  |  | always *property* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maddie=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The crowd will turn round and fight Maddie instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:393-bystanders:t5:o4:1
# text = The crowd will turn round and fight Maddie instead
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn round** | future | the crowd | Maddie |  |  |  | instead, round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme maddie=Result |
| 2 | **fight** | infinitive | the crowd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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