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title: In a cartoon, the mum shouts «DINNER!» so loud the house shakes and… — Shouty parents and bad days · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, the mum shouts «DINNER!» so loud the house shakes and everyone laughs. What's real about it? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 494 «Shouty parents and bad days» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Shouty parents and bad days

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In a cartoon, the mum shouts «DINNER!» so loud the house shakes and everyone laughs. What's real about it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mum, house, everyone · **What happens:** shout, shake, laugh, be · **To what, where:** DINNER, cartoon

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 494 «Shouty parents and bad days» 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/494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, the mum shouts «DINNER!» so loud the house shakes and everyone laughs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days:t4:1
# text = In a cartoon, the mum shouts «DINNER!» so loud the house shakes and everyone laughs.
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	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	DINNER	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
19	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | the mum | DINNER |  | a cartoon |  | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Topic |
| 2 | **shake** | present | the house |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **laugh** | present | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 real about it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days:t4:2
# text = What's real about it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about house; real *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Loud families are always very unhappy ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days:t4:o1:1
# text = Loud families are always very unhappy ones
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Loud families | unhappy ones |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Every loud mum is secretly very dangerous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days:t4:o2:1
# text = Every loud mum is secretly very dangerous
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | every loud mum |  |  |  |  | dangerous, secretly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Some families are just loud, and that's fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days:t4:o3:1
# text = Some families are just loud, and that's fine
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some families |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Shouting makes houses fall down for real

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days:t4:o4:1
# text = Shouting makes houses fall down for real
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | houses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall down** | infinitive | houses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for real | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for real=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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