--- title: Theo's mate jumps in the paddling pool: «sweet as!» What does that m… — Boasting cousins and made-up holidays · tree and pragmatics description: Theo's mate jumps in the paddling pool: «sweet as!» What does that mean? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 435 «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Boasting cousins and made-up holidays](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★★ · Boasting cousins and made-up holidays Theo's mate jumps in the paddling pool: «sweet as!» What does that mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, that · **What happens:** jump, mean · **To what, where:** paddling pool This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 435 «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Theo's mate jumps in the paddling pool: «sweet as!» ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t7:1 # text = Theo's mate jumps in the paddling pool: «sweet as!» 1 Theo Theo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 paddling paddling NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump** | present | Theo's mate | | | the paddling pool | | | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* What does that mean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t7:2 # text = What does that 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 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 4 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | that | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Too sweet ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t7:o1:1 # text = Too sweet 1 Too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Great, I love it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t7:o2:1 # text = Great, I love it 1 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | present | I | it | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ### Option 3 {#o3} It's cold ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t7:o3:1 # text = It's cold 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | It | | | | | cold *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Too small ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays:t7:o4:1 # text = Too small 1 Too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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