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title: Your little cousin copies everything you do and it's doing your head… — The copier and the one who competes at… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your little cousin copies everything you do and it's doing your head in. Kind idea? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 469 «The copier and the one who competes at everything» 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 
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# Test 7 · ★ · The copier and the one who competes at everything

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Your little cousin copies everything you do and it's doing your head in. Kind idea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** little cousin, you, cousin · **What happens:** copy, do, do in · **To what, where:** everything, head

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 469 «The copier and the one who competes at everything» 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/469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your little cousin copies everything you do and it's doing your head in.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything:t7:1
# text = Your little cousin copies everything you do and it's doing your head in.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	copies	copy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | present | Your little cousin | everything |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do in** | present · progressive | cousin | your head |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |

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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:* Kind idea?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything:t7:2
# text = Kind idea?
1	Kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Copy her back to wind her up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything:t7:o1:1
# text = Copy her back to wind her up
1	Copy	copy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	appos	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy back** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  | wind *obl* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hide from her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything:t7:o2:1
# text = Hide from her
1	Hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tell her she's annoying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything:t7:o3:1
# text = Tell her she's annoying
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	annoying	annoying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
```

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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* |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | she |  |  |  |  | annoying *property* | tree rules |

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

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Do something together, like a silly photo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything:t7:o4:1
# text = Do something together, like a silly photo
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  | like a silly photo; together *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |

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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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