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title: ★★★ Which of these is NOT a good person to tell about a worry at home? — Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Which of these is NOT a good person to tell about a worry at home? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 497 «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» 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 10 · ★ · Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult

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★★★ Which of these is NOT a good person to tell about a worry at home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ ★ · **What happens:** not be, tell · **To what, where:** good person, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 497 «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» 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/497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult:t10:1
# text = ★★★ Which of these is NOT a good person to tell about a worry at home?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	NOT	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | ★ ★ ★  a good person | a good person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | home |  | about a worry | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about worry=Topic |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Childline

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult:t10:o1:1
# text = Childline
1	Childline	Childline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A school counsellor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult:t10:o2:1
# text = A school counsellor
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A stranger met in an online game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult:t10:o3:1
# text = A stranger met in an online game
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	online	online	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | participle |  | a stranger *not said here* |  | a online game |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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A teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult:t10:o4:1
# text = A teacher
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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