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title: Squad on voice chat: «Jayden, why are you bouncing?? lol». What is h… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Squad on voice chat: «Jayden, why are you bouncing?? lol». What is he doing? Test 6 of lesson 420 «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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 6 · Eyes, backs and thumbs

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Squad on voice chat: «Jayden, why are you bouncing?? lol». What is he doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Squad · **What happens:** bounce, do

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This is test 6 of lesson 420 «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Squad on voice chat: «Jayden, why are you bouncing?? lol».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t6:1
# text = Squad on voice chat: «Jayden, why are you bouncing?? lol».
1	Squad	squad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bouncing	bounce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bounce** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Squad on voice chat |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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 is he doing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t6:2
# text = What is he doing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	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 | **do** | present · progressive | Squad |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Celebrating that the game crashed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t6:o1:1
# text = Celebrating that the game crashed
1	Celebrating	celebrate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
5	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **crash** | past | Celebrating |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Trying to warm up his console

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t6:o2:1
# text = Trying to warm up his console
1	Trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **warm up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | his console |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent console=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Showing off that he won the match

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t6:o3:1
# text = Showing off that he won the match
1	Showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show off** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **win** | past | he | the match |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality |

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

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A movement break between matches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t6:o4:1
# text = A movement break between matches
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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