--- title: Lily sees Grace and Maddie giggling and looking at her. What's the b… — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics description: Lily sees Grace and Maddie giggling and looking at her. What's the best first step? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 468 «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/t4/) [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/) / [Nice alone, mean in a group](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★★ · Nice alone, mean in a group Lily sees Grace and Maddie giggling and looking at her. What's the best first step? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lily, Grace, best first step · **What happens:** see, giggle, look, be · **To what, where:** Grace This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 468 «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Lily sees Grace and Maddie giggling and looking at her. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group:t4:1 # text = Lily sees Grace and Maddie giggling and looking at her. 1 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Grace Grace PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 giggling giggle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 conj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | Lily | Grace and Maddie | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **giggle** | gerund | Grace and Maddie *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **look** | gerund | Grace and Maddie *not said here* | | | | | at Lily | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | 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's the best first step? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group:t4:2 # text = What's the best first 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 6 det _ _ 4 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 5 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the best first step | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Leave the school ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group:t4:o1:1 # text = Leave the school 1 Leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | the school | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Shout at both of them ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group:t4:o2:1 # text = Shout at both of them 1 Shout shout VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 1 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | both | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Start giggling about them back, louder ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group:t4:o3:1 # text = Start giggling about them back, louder 1 Start start VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 giggling giggle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 louder loud ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **giggle** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | about them *= they* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Ask Maddie directly, in private ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group:t4:o4:1 # text = Ask Maddie directly, in private 1 Ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 directly directly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | Maddie | | | directly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient | **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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