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title: «zara u don't even play games, ur so boring». What's true? — Left out without a console · tree and pragmatics
description: «zara u don't even play games, ur so boring». What's true? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 399 «Left out without a console» 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 1 · ★★ · Left out without a console

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«zara u don't even play games, ur so boring». What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** u · **What happens:** not play, be · **To what, where:** games

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 399 «Left out without a console» 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/399-left-out-without-a-console/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «zara u don't even play games, ur so boring».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:399-left-out-without-a-console:t1:1
# text = «zara u don't even play games, ur so boring».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	zara	zara	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ur	ur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **play** *in a quote* | present · do-support | u | games and ur |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |

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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's true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:399-left-out-without-a-console:t1:2
# 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	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o1}

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Kids without consoles have no hobbies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:399-left-out-without-a-console:t1:o1:1
# text = Kids without consoles have no hobbies
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	consoles	console	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	hobbies	hobby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Kids without consoles | no hobbies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hobby=Patient |

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

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Not having a console doesn't make you boring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:399-left-out-without-a-console:t1:o2:1
# text = Not having a console doesn't make you boring
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | gerund |  | a console |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | having | you |  |  |  | boring *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Boring people don't like games

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:399-left-out-without-a-console:t1:o3:1
# text = Boring people don't like games
1	Boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | Boring people | games |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot game=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Zara should pretend to play games

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:399-left-out-without-a-console:t1:o4:1
# text = Zara should pretend to play games
1	Zara	Zara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | should | Zara |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | Zara *not said here* | games |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |

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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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