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title: Teen at the park: «lemme hold your scooter real quick, no cap». What… — The older kid's «trade» · tree and pragmatics
description: Teen at the park: «lemme hold your scooter real quick, no cap». What does a smart kid say? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 445 «The older kid's «trade»» 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 3 · ★ · The older kid's «trade»

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Teen at the park: «lemme hold your scooter real quick, no cap». What does a smart kid say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lemme, smart kid · **What happens:** hold, say · **To what, where:** scooter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 445 «The older kid's «trade»» 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/445-the-older-kids-trade/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Teen at the park: «lemme hold your scooter real quick, no cap».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade:t3:1
# text = Teen at the park: «lemme hold your scooter real quick, no cap».
1	Teen	teen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	lemme	lemme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	scooter	scooter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** *in a quote* | infinitive | lemme | your scooter |  |  |  | no cap *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scooter=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:* What does a smart kid say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade:t3:2
# text = What does a smart kid say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | a smart kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Nah, sorry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade:t3:o1:1
# text = Nah, sorry
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Take my helmet as well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade:t3:o2:1
# text = Take my helmet as well
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	1	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | my helmet |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Okay, but only round the corner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade:t3:o3:1
# text = Okay, but only round the corner
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sure, if you say no cap again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade:t3:o4:1
# text = Sure, if you say no cap again
1	Sure	sure	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | no cap |  |  | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cap=Topic |

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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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