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title: Mum: «You've been on for an hour, out you go, kick a ball.» Mia: «fi… — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum: «You've been on for an hour, out you go, kick a ball.» Mia: «fine». What did Mia find? Test 8 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 8 · Eyes, backs and thumbs

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Mum: «You've been on for an hour, out you go, kick a ball.» Mia: «fine». What did Mia find?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, you, Mia · **What happens:** be, go, kick, find · **To what, where:** ball

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum: «You've been on for an hour, out you go, kick a ball.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t8:1
# text = Mum: «You've been on for an hour, out you go, kick a ball.»
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Mum |  |  |  | on a hour |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kick** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a ball |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ball=Patient |

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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:* Mia: «fine».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t8:2
# text = Mia: «fine».
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 3:* What did Mia find?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t8:3
# text = What did Mia find?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	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 | **find** | past · do-support | Mia |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

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

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She came back with fresh energy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t8:o1:1
# text = She came back with fresh energy
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | She |  |  |  |  | with fresh energy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing changed at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t8:o2:1
# text = Nothing changed at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | participle |  |  |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She was too tired to play again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t8:o3:1
# text = She was too tired to play again
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | She |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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She forgot how to play the game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t8:o4:1
# text = She forgot how to play the game
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | She |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **play** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | the game |  |  |  |  | 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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