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title: Jacob's sister bought him a cone after the ice-cream van joke. Why? — Big kids, little kids and the truth at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Jacob's sister bought him a cone after the ice-cream van joke. Why? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 433 «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 right.
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Big kids, little kids and the truth at home

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Jacob's sister bought him a cone after the ice-cream van joke. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** buy · **To what, where:** cone, Jacob

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 433 «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jacob's sister bought him a cone after the ice-cream van joke.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home:t7:1
# text = Jacob's sister bought him a cone after the ice-cream van joke.
1	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | Jacob's sister | a cone | Jacob |  | after the van joke |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary cone=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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home:t7:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Because Mum told her the joke was true

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home:t7:o1:1
# text = Because Mum told her the joke was true
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Mum |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the joke |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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To say sorry for tricking him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home:t7:o2:1
# text = To say sorry for tricking him
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	tricking	trick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: apologize* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trick** | gerund |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To trick him again the next day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home:t7:o3:1
# text = To trick him again the next day
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	trick	trick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  | again; day |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Because the van was giving out free cones that day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home:t7:o4:1
# text = Because the van was giving out free cones that day
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cones	cone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give out** | past · progressive | the van | free cones  that day |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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