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title: In a sitcom, two sisters share a room and fight in every scene, noth… — Fighting, ignoring each other and shar… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a sitcom, two sisters share a room and fight in every scene, nothing else. What's real life like? Test 9 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; Mo
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# Test 9 · Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room

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In a sitcom, two sisters share a room and fight in every scene, nothing else. What's real life like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** two sisters, real life · **What happens:** share, be · **To what, where:** room, sitcom

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a sitcom, two sisters share a room and fight in every scene, nothing else.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t9:1
# text = In a sitcom, two sisters share a room and fight in every scene, nothing else.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sitcom	sitcom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	appos	_	_
17	else	else	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present | two sisters | a room and fight in every scene |  | a sitcom |  |  | 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's real life like?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t9:2
# text = What's real life like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Rows and also midnight laughs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t9:o1:1
# text = Rows and also midnight laughs
1	Rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	laughs	laugh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Never any fights, just fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t9:o2:1
# text = Never any fights, just fun
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only boys fight over rooms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t9:o3:1
# text = Only boys fight over rooms
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | present | boys |  |  |  |  | over rooms | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over room=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fighting all day with no laughs at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room:t9:o4:1
# text = Fighting all day with no laughs at all
1	Fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	laughs	laugh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  | all | day | with no laughs | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with laugh=Co-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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