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title: «Back in my day we did chores before we breathed!» What does Grandma… — The granny who spoils you and the stri… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Back in my day we did chores before we breathed!» What does Grandma really mean? Test 11 of lesson 512 «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» 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 wr
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# Test 11 · The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad

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«Back in my day we did chores before we breathed!» What does Grandma really mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** we, Grandma · **What happens:** do, breathe, mean · **To what, where:** chores

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This is test 11 of lesson 512 «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» 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/512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Back in my day we did chores before we breathed!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad:t11:1
# text = «Back in my day we did chores before we breathed!»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
8	chores	chore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | past | we | chores |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality |
| 2 | **breathe** *in a quote* | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Grandma really mean?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad:t11:2
# text = What does Grandma really mean?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **mean** | present · do-support | Grandma |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

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

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Children used to do lots of chores early

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad:t11:o1:1
# text = Children used to do lots of chores early
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	chores	chore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Children |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* | lots of chores |  |  |  | early *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Children never did any chores

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad:t11:o2:1
# text = Children never did any chores
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	chores	chore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past | Children | any chores |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Children used to hold their breath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad:t11:o3:1
# text = Children used to hold their breath
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Children |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* | Children's breath |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She was born without breathing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad:t11:o4:1
# text = She was born without breathing
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | She |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **breathe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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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