--- title: Kieran: «a picnic won't stop anything». What's true? — Making peace between the streets · tree and pragmatics description: Kieran: «a picnic won't stop anything». What's true? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 394 «Making peace between the streets» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Making peace between the streets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Making peace between the streets Kieran: «a picnic won't stop anything». What's true? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** picnic · **What happens:** not stop, be · **To what, where:** anything This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 394 «Making peace between the streets» 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/394-making-peace-between-the-streets/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Kieran: «a picnic won't stop anything». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:394-making-peace-between-the-streets:t9:1 # text = Kieran: «a picnic won't stop anything». 1 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 picnic picnic NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 9 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stop** *in a quote* | future | a picnic | anything | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality anything=Eventuality | 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. *Sentence 2:* What's true? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:394-making-peace-between-the-streets:t9:2 # 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 _ _ ``` | # | 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 {#o1} Only adults can make peace ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:394-making-peace-between-the-streets:t9:o1:1 # text = Only adults can make peace 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can | adults | peace | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product | ### Option 2 {#o2} Only a big speech in assembly can stop fights like that ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:394-making-peace-between-the-streets:t9:o2:1 # text = Only a big speech in assembly can stop fights like that 1 Only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 assembly assembly NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | can | a big speech in assembly | fights | | | | like that | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fight=Eventuality | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Peace is built from lots of small things like that ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:394-making-peace-between-the-streets:t9:o3:1 # text = Peace is built from lots of small things like that 1 Peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present · passive | | Peace | | lots of small things like that | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from lot=Material | ### Option 4 {#o4} Picnics make fights worse ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:394-making-peace-between-the-streets:t9:o4:1 # text = Picnics make fights worse 1 Picnics picnic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Picnics | fights | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fight=Product | **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. 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