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title: «old laptop, everything's slow, guess I can't play with them». Good… — Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi · tree and pragmatics
description: «old laptop, everything's slow, guess I can't play with them». Good friends would? Test 10 of lesson 409 «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» 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 10 · Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi

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«old laptop, everything's slow, guess I can't play with them». Good friends would?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** old laptop, I · **What happens:** be, guess, not play · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 409 «Lag, crashes and blaming the wifi» 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/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «old laptop, everything's slow, guess I can't play with them».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t10:1
# text = «old laptop, everything's slow, guess I can't play with them».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	laptop	laptop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	guess	guess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | old laptop |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **guess** *in a quote* | present | old laptop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **play** *in a quote* | can | I |  |  |  |  | with them *= they* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=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:* Good friends would?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t10:2
# text = Good friends would?
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Tell her to stay home until she gets a new one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t10:o1:1
# text = Tell her to stay home until she gets a new one
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present | she | a new one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Play without telling her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t10:o2:1
# text = Play without telling her
1	Play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Make fun of the laptop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t10:o3:1
# text = Make fun of the laptop
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	laptop	laptop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | fun of the laptop |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Pick games that run fine on her laptop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi:t10:o4:1
# text = Pick games that run fine on her laptop
1	Pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	laptop	laptop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | imperative | you *not said here* | games |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient |
| 2 | **run** | present | games |  |  | her laptop |  | fine *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on laptop=Trajectory |

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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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