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title: Leo's grandad, seeing the email home: «Bummer.» What does he mean? — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics
description: Leo's grandad, seeing the email home: «Bummer.» What does he mean? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 426 ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» 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 10 · ★ · «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework

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Leo's grandad, seeing the email home: «Bummer.» What does he mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grandad · **What happens:** see, mean · **To what, where:** email home

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 426 ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» 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/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Leo's grandad, seeing the email home: «Bummer.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework:t10:1
# text = Leo's grandad, seeing the email home: «Bummer.»
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Bummer	bummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | Leo's grandad | the email home |  |  |  | Bummer *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=Stimulus |

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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 does he mean?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework:t10:2
# text = What does he mean?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	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	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **mean** | present · do-support | grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Let's go to the shop together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework:t10:o1:1
# text = Let's go to the shop together
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | 's *not said here* |  |  | the shop |  | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial\_Location |

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

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That's bad luck, too bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework:t10:o2:1
# text = That's bad luck, too bad
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | bad luck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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I'm very angry with you indeed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework:t10:o3:1
# text = I'm very angry with you indeed
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with you; angry, indeed *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Well done, great work, I'm proud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework:t10:o4:1
# text = Well done, great work, I'm proud
1	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle | I *not said here* | great work |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |

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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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