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title: In a cartoon, the boy in the wheelchair is always sad and waiting to… — A sibling with a disability or illness… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, the boy in the wheelchair is always sad and waiting to be saved. What's truer? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 506 «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 6 · ★ · A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left…

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In a cartoon, the boy in the wheelchair is always sad and waiting to be saved. What's truer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** be, wait, save · **To what, where:** cartoon

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 506 «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» 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/506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, the boy in the wheelchair is always sad and waiting to be saved.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home:t6:1
# text = In a cartoon, the boy in the wheelchair is always sad and waiting to be saved.
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	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the boy in the wheelchair |  |  | a cartoon |  | always, sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | the boy in the wheelchair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | to-infinitive · passive | the boy in the wheelchair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP» |

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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 truer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home:t6:2
# text = What's truer?
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	truer	true	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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His wheelchair is just how he gets about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home:t6:o1:1
# text = His wheelchair is just how he gets about
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Everyone in a wheelchair is badly ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home:t6:o2:1
# text = Everyone in a wheelchair is badly ill
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	ill	ill	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 | Everyone |  |  |  |  | badly, ill *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Wheelchair users always need saving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home:t6:o3:1
# text = Wheelchair users always need saving
1	Wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	users	user	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	saving	saving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Wheelchair users | saving |  |  |  | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot saving=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wheelchair users can never have any fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home:t6:o4:1
# text = Wheelchair users can never have any fun
1	Wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	users	user	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | can | Wheelchair users | any fun |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |

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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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