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title: You moved school and you're eating lunch alone for the third day. Wh… — The new kid and the first day · tree and pragmatics
description: You moved school and you're eating lunch alone for the third day. What's the best step? Test 8 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 right.
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# Test 8 · The new kid and the first day

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You moved school and you're eating lunch alone for the third day. What's the best step?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You, best step · **What happens:** move, eat, be · **To what, where:** school, lunch

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You moved school and you're eating lunch alone for the third day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t8:1
# text = You moved school and you're eating lunch alone for the third day.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | You | school |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent school=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present · progressive | you | lunch |  |  | day | alone *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient |

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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's the best step?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t8:2
# text = What's the best step?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the best step |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Stop eating lunch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t8:o1:1
# text = Stop eating lunch
1	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	_
3	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | you *not said here* | lunch |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pretend you're on your phone forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t8:o2:1
# text = Pretend you're on your phone forever
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
7	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  | your phone |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Keep it secret, it'll pass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t8:o3:1
# text = Keep it secret, it'll pass
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | future | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Tell a teacher or dinner lady

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day:t8:o4:1
# text = Tell a teacher or dinner lady
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a teacher or dinner lady |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |

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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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