--- title: Lily's nervous about starting a new club. What does her mum's story… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics description: Lily's nervous about starting a new club. What does her mum's story suggest? Test 11 of lesson 465 «The new kid and the first day» 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/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/t11/) [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/) / [The new kid and the first day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/) / t11 # Test 11 · The new kid and the first day Lily's nervous about starting a new club. What does her mum's story suggest? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** story · **What happens:** start, suggest · **To what, where:** new club This is test 11 of lesson 465 «The new kid and the first day» 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/465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Lily's nervous about starting a new club. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t11:1 # text = Lily's nervous about starting a new club. 1 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 about about SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | gerund | | a new club | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Eventuality | 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 her mum's story suggest? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t11:2 # text = What does her mum's story suggest? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 suggest suggest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present · do-support | Lily's mum's story | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} First days are always fun ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t11:o1:1 # text = First days are always fun 1 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 2 amod _ _ 2 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 5 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | First days | | | | | always, fun *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The first day is hard, but it gets better ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t11:o2:1 # text = The first day is hard, but it gets better 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the first day | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | present | it | | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 3 {#o3} Never try new places ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t11:o3:1 # text = Never try new places 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | new places | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Only grown-ups find it hard ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t11:o4:1 # text = Only grown-ups find it hard 1 Only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **find** | present | grown ups | it | | | | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | **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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