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title: Kid: «Paris was sick, Eiffel Tower, croissants, a man in a beret». «… — Too many details, too few · tree and pragmatics
description: Kid: «Paris was sick, Eiffel Tower, croissants, a man in a beret». «Sick» here means great. What's missing that a real trip would have? Test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 450 «Too many details, too few» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 8 · ★★★ · Too many details, too few

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Kid: «Paris was sick, Eiffel Tower, croissants, a man in a beret». «Sick» here means great. What's missing that a real trip would have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Paris, real trip · **What happens:** be, mean, have

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This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 450 «Too many details, too few» 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/450-too-many-details-too-few/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Kid: «Paris was sick, Eiffel Tower, croissants, a man in a beret».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few:t8:1
# text = Kid: «Paris was sick, Eiffel Tower, croissants, a man in a beret».
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Eiffel	Eiffel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	croissants	croissant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beret	beret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Paris |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | tree rules |

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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:* «Sick» here means great.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few:t8:2
# text = «Sick» here means great.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What's missing that a real trip would have?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few:t8:3
# text = What's missing that a real trip would have?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | would | a real trip |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A croissant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few:t8:o1:1
# text = A croissant
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	croissant	croissant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Famous places

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few:t8:o2:1
# text = Famous places
1	Famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Small personal odd details

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few:t8:o3:1
# text = Small personal odd details
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The word «Paris»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:450-too-many-details-too-few:t8:o4:1
# text = The word «Paris»
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

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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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