--- title: ★★★ Nell blames Rab for 3 messes a day and Tam for 2. Mum says, «Rab… — The only child: a quiet house · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Nell blames Rab for 3 messes a day and Tam for 2. Mum says, «Rab and Tam can tidy half the messes each day.» In 2 days, how many messes do Rab and Tam tidy? 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Mum says, «Rab and Tam can tidy half the messes each day.» In 2 days, how many messes do Rab and Tam tidy? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, Mum, Rab, many messes · **What happens:** blame, say, tidy, do, tam · **To what, where:** Rab, messes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 of lesson 498 «The only child: a quiet house» 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/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Nell blames Rab for 3 messes a day and Tam for 2. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house:t10:1 # text = ★★★ Nell blames Rab for 3 messes a day and Tam for 2. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 Nell Nell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 blames blame VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Rab Rab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 messes mess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 Tam tam NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** | present | ★ | Rab | | | | for 3 messes a day and Tam for 2 | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent rab=Theme for mess=Attribute | 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. *Sentence 2:* Mum says, «Rab and Tam can tidy half the messes each day.» ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house:t10:2 # text = Mum says, «Rab and Tam can tidy half the messes each day.» 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Rab Rab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Tam Tam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 tidy tidy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 10 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 12 det:predet _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 messes mess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tidy** *in a quote* | can | Rab and Tam | half messes | | | day | | tree rules | *Sentence 3:* In 2 days, how many messes do Rab and Tam tidy? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house:t10:3 # text = In 2 days, how many messes do Rab and Tam tidy? 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 messes mess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Rab Rab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Tam tam VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 12 tidy tidy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | many messes | Rab | | | day | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rab=Eventuality | | 2 | **tam** | infinitive | many messes *not said here* | | | | | tidy *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 10 ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house:t10:o1:1 # text = 10 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house:t10:o2:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house:t10:o3:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 4 ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house:t10:o4:1 # text = 4 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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