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title: Connor comes back from kicking the ball and passes the level. Why di… — Blocking, muting and walking away · tree and pragmatics
description: Connor comes back from kicking the ball and passes the level. Why did it help? Test 11 of lesson 481 «Blocking, muting and walking away» 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.
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# Test 11 · Blocking, muting and walking away

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Connor comes back from kicking the ball and passes the level. Why did it help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Connor, level · **What happens:** come back, kick, pass, help · **To what, where:** ball, level

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This is test 11 of lesson 481 «Blocking, muting and walking away» 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/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Connor comes back from kicking the ball and passes the level.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away:t11:1
# text = Connor comes back from kicking the ball and passes the level.
1	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | present | Connor |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kick** | gerund | Connor *not said here* | the ball |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ball=Patient |
| 3 | **pass** | present | Connor *not said here* | the level |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme level=Trajectory |

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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:* Why did it help?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away:t11:2
# text = Why did it help?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past · do-support | level |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The tablet cooled down while he was outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away:t11:o1:1
# text = The tablet cooled down while he was outside
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	cooled	cool	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool down** | participle |  | the tablet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Moving burns off the anger so you can think

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away:t11:o2:1
# text = Moving burns off the anger so you can think
1	Moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burn off** | present |  | the anger |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent anger=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Kicking makes you cleverer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away:t11:o3:1
# text = Kicking makes you cleverer
1	Kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	cleverer	clever	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | you |  |  |  | clever *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The ball somehow taught him the level

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away:t11:o4:1
# text = The ball somehow taught him the level
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | the ball | the level | him *= he* |  |  | somehow *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient level=Topic |

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