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title: Mate: «20-20-20 is made up, nobody does that». What is the rule real… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate: «20-20-20 is made up, nobody does that». What is the rule really for? Test 7 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 7 · Eyes, backs and thumbs

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Mate: «20-20-20 is made up, nobody does that». What is the rule really for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nobody, rule · **What happens:** make up, do, be · **To what, where:** Mate, that

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mate: «20-20-20 is made up, nobody does that».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t7:1
# text = Mate: «20-20-20 is made up, nobody does that».
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	20-20-20	20-20-20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
10	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Mate |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present | nobody | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

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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 the rule really for?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t7:2
# text = What is the rule really for?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the rule |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Giving the eyes regular short rests

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t7:o1:1
# text = Giving the eyes regular short rests
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rests	rest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund |  | the eyes |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent eye=Recipient rest=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Making games last twenty minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t7:o2:1
# text = Making games last twenty minutes
1	Making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund |  | games |  |  | minute |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Measuring how far the TV should be

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t7:o3:1
# text = Measuring how far the TV should be
1	Measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | gerund |  | the TV |  |  |  | far *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tv=Value |
| 2 | **be** | should | Measuring |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Teaching kids to count to twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t7:o4:1
# text = Teaching kids to count to twenty
1	Teaching	teach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  | kids |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient |
| 2 | **count** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to twenty | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to twenty=Experiencer |

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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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