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title: Harper gives out party invites in class to everyone but one girl. Wh… — Three's a crowd, and the friend who pi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Harper gives out party invites in class to everyone but one girl. What should that girl do? Test 8 of lesson 478 «Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 8 · Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else

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Harper gives out party invites in class to everyone but one girl. What should that girl do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Harper, girl · **What happens:** give out, do · **To what, where:** party invites, everyone, class

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This is test 8 of lesson 478 «Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else» 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/478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Harper gives out party invites in class to everyone but one girl.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else:t8:1
# text = Harper gives out party invites in class to everyone but one girl.
1	Harper	Harper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	invites	invite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give out** | present | Harper | party invites | everyone | class |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent invite=Theme to everyone=Recipient |

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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 should that girl do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else:t8:2
# text = What should that girl do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | that girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Steal an invite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else:t8:o1:1
# text = Steal an invite
1	Steal	steal	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	invite	invite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | imperative | you *not said here* | a invite |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location invite=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Turn up at the party anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else:t8:o2:1
# text = Turn up at the party anyway
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the party |  | anyway *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at party=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Tell everyone Harper's party is rubbish and nobody should go

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else:t8:o3:1
# text = Tell everyone Harper's party is rubbish and nobody should go
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	iobj	_	_
3	Harper	Harper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	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* |  | everyone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Harper's party | rubbish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | should | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Tell a grown-up and do something nice with family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:478-threes-a-crowd-and-the-friend-who-picks-someone-else:t8:o4:1
# text = Tell a grown-up and do something nice with family
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	grown	grown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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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 grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  | with family | 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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