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title: «Eat them hot, mija». What is Mrs Lopez doing? — Neighbours who don't speak and the fri… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Eat them hot, mija». What is Mrs Lopez doing? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 483 «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 9 · ★ · Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper

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«Eat them hot, mija». What is Mrs Lopez doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Mrs · **What happens:** eat, do · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 483 «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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/483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Eat them hot, mija».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper:t9:1
# text = «Eat them hot, mija».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mija	mija	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |

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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 is Mrs Lopez doing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper:t9:2
# text = What is Mrs Lopez doing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Lopez	Lopez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	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** | present · progressive | Mrs |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Asking Mia to cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper:t9:o1:1
# text = Asking Mia to cook
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  | Mia |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **cook** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Selling her tamales to the family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper:t9:o2:1
# text = Selling her tamales to the family
1	Selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tamales	tamale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund |  | her tamales | the family |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tamale=Theme to family=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Telling Mia off for leaving them to go cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper:t9:o3:1
# text = Telling Mia off for leaving them to go cold
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | Mia |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Sharing food, which builds friendship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper:t9:o4:1
# text = Sharing food, which builds friendship
1	Sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | gerund |  | food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | present | food | friendship |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=Product |

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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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