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title: Mum drops everyone's phones in the fruit bowl. Dad: «what if work ca… — Family game night · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum drops everyone's phones in the fruit bowl. Dad: «what if work calls?!» Why does Mum do it? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 425 «Family game night» 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 · ★★★ · Family game night

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Mum drops everyone's phones in the fruit bowl. Dad: «what if work calls?!» Why does Mum do it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, work · **What happens:** drop, call, do · **To what, where:** phones, fruit bowl, bowl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 425 «Family game night» 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/425-family-game-night/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum drops everyone's phones in the fruit bowl.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t6:1
# text = Mum drops everyone's phones in the fruit bowl.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | Mum | everyone's phones |  | the fruit bowl |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent phone=Theme in bowl=Destination |

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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:* Dad: «what if work calls?!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t6:2
# text = Dad: «what if work calls?!»
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?!	?!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *in a quote* | present | work |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* Why does Mum do it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t6:3
# text = Why does Mum do it?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · do-support | Mum | bowl |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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So Dad cannot look up the answers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t6:o1:1
# text = So Dad cannot look up the answers
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **look up** | can | Dad | the answers |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme answer=Attribute |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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So everyone pays attention to each other

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t6:o2:1
# text = So everyone pays attention to each other
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obl	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present | everyone | attention |  |  |  | to each | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Because phones get broken during board games

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t6:o3:1
# text = Because phones get broken during board games
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	during	during	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · passive |  | phones |  |  | during board games |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Because the fruit bowl charges them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:425-family-game-night:t6:o4:1
# text = Because the fruit bowl charges them
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	charges	charge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | present | the fruit bowl | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location they=Theme |

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