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title: Mum: «Brandon, your brother's winding you up again, what d'you do?»… — Fighting, ignoring each other and shar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum: «Brandon, your brother's winding you up again, what d'you do?» Which is the strong move? Test 11 of lesson 508 «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 11 · Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room

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Mum: «Brandon, your brother's winding you up again, what d'you do?» Which is the strong move?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brother, Mum · **What happens:** wind up, do, be · **To what, where:** you, strong move

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This is test 11 of lesson 508 «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» 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/508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum: «Brandon, your brother's winding you up again, what d'you do?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t11:1
# text = Mum: «Brandon, your brother's winding you up again, what d'you do?»
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Brandon	Brandon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
15	d'you	d'you	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	16	dep	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wind up** *in a quote* | present · progressive | your brother | you |  |  | again |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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:* Which is the strong move?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t11:2
# text = Which is the strong move?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the strong move |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Break something of his

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t11:o1:1
# text = Break something of his
1	Break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | imperative | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Walk away before it heats up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t11:o2:1
# text = Walk away before it heats up
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heats	heat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **heat up** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Kick him first to show who's boss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t11:o3:1
# text = Kick him first to show who's boss
1	Kick	kick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | boss |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Shout louder than him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t11:o4:1
# text = Shout louder than him
1	Shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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