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title: Mia's game says the pyramids were built in a week by giant robots. W… — Homework first? · tree and pragmatics
description: Mia's game says the pyramids were built in a week by giant robots. What should she do for her project? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 419 «Homework first?» 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 7 · ★ · Homework first?

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Mia's game says the pyramids were built in a week by giant robots. What should she do for her project?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** game, giant robots · **What happens:** say, build, do, project · **To what, where:** pyramids · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 419 «Homework first?» 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/419-homework-first/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mia's game says the pyramids were built in a week by giant robots.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:419-homework-first:t7:1
# text = Mia's game says the pyramids were built in a week by giant robots.
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	robots	robot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mia's game |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **build** | past · passive | giant robots | the pyramids |  |  | week |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |

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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 should she do for her project?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:419-homework-first:t7:2
# text = What should she do for her project?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | game |  |  |  |  | for game's project | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **project** |  | game |  |  |  |  |  | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Leave the pyramids out entirely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:419-homework-first:t7:o1:1
# text = Leave the pyramids out entirely
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the pyramids |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pyramid=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Ask the game to explain it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:419-homework-first:t7:o2:1
# text = Ask the game to explain it
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the game |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent game=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the game *not said here* | game |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Copy what the game says exactly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:419-homework-first:t7:o3:1
# text = Copy what the game says exactly
1	Copy	copy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the game |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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

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Check the facts in good books

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:419-homework-first:t7:o4:1
# text = Check the facts in good books
1	Check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | the facts |  | good books |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=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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