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title: Someone copies your secret handshake at Sports Day. Should you be fu… — Sleepovers and inside jokes · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone copies your secret handshake at Sports Day. Should you be furious? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 462 «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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 4 · ★ · Sleepovers and inside jokes

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Someone copies your secret handshake at Sports Day. Should you be furious?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Someone, you · **What happens:** copy, be · **To what, where:** secret handshake

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 462 «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Someone copies your secret handshake at Sports Day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:t4:1
# text = Someone copies your secret handshake at Sports Day.
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	copies	copy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	handshake	handshake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Sports	Sports	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | present | Someone | your secret handshake |  |  | at Sports Day |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent handshake=Theme at day=Destination |

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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:* Should you be furious?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:t4:2
# text = Should you be furious?
1	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 | **is** | should | you |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, report them to the head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:t4:o1:1
# text = Yes, report them to the head
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	report	report	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | the head |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to head=Recipient |

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

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No, it means you made something cool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:t4:o2:1
# text = No, it means you made something cool
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past | you | something |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, but stop being friends with your mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:t4:o3:1
# text = No, but stop being friends with your mate
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with your mate | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mate=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, invent a new handshake every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes:t4:o4:1
# text = Yes, invent a new handshake every day
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	invent	invent	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	handshake	handshake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | imperative | you *not said here* | a new handshake |  |  | day |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handshake=Result |

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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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