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description: In a cartoon, the girl in the charity-shop dress gets laughed off the dance floor. What's more real? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 487 «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 3 · ★ · Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform

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In a cartoon, the girl in the charity-shop dress gets laughed off the dance floor. What's more real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** laugh off, be · **To what, where:** girl, cartoon

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 487 «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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/487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, the girl in the charity-shop dress gets laughed off the dance floor.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform:t3:1
# text = In a cartoon, the girl in the charity-shop dress gets laughed off the dance floor.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh off** | present · passive |  | the girl in the shop dress |  | a cartoon |  | off the dance floor | 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's more real?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform:t3:2
# text = What's more real?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Only grown-ups are allowed in charity shops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform:t3:o1:1
# text = Only grown-ups are allowed in charity shops
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **allow** | present · passive |  | grown ups |  | charity shops |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

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

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Plenty of people shop there and nobody can tell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform:t3:o2:1
# text = Plenty of people shop there and nobody can tell
1	Plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Charity-shop clothes always fall apart on you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform:t3:o3:1
# text = Charity-shop clothes always fall apart on you
1	Charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nsubj	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall apart** | present | shop clothes |  |  |  |  | on you; always, apart *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Charity shops sell nothing but old curtains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform:t3:o4:1
# text = Charity shops sell nothing but old curtains
1	Charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sell	sell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | present | Charity shops | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |

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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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