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title: «Oisín picked 'Saoirse', that's deadly». What does «deadly» mean here? — A new baby · tree and pragmatics
description: «Oisín picked 'Saoirse', that's deadly». What does «deadly» mean here? Test 11 of lesson 504 «A new baby» 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 11 · A new baby

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«Oisín picked 'Saoirse', that's deadly». What does «deadly» mean here?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oisín, that, deadly · **What happens:** pick, be, mean · **To what, where:** Saoirse

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This is test 11 of lesson 504 «A new baby» 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/504-a-new-baby/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Oisín picked 'Saoirse', that's deadly».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:504-a-new-baby:t11:1
# text = «Oisín picked 'Saoirse', that's deadly».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oisín	Oisín	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Saoirse	Saoirse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** *in a quote* | past | Oisín | Saoirse |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saoirse=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | deadly *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 does «deadly» mean here?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:504-a-new-baby:t11:2
# text = What does «deadly» mean here?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | deadly |  |  | here |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:504-a-new-baby:t11:o1:1
# text = Sad
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dangerous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:504-a-new-baby:t11:o2:1
# text = Dangerous
1	Dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Very old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:504-a-new-baby:t11:o3:1
# text = Very old
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Brilliant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:504-a-new-baby:t11:o4:1
# text = Brilliant
1	Brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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