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title: Why is it a good idea to wait until you are calm before solving a qu… — Feelings and calming down · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is it a good idea to wait until you are calm before solving a quarrel? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 53 «Feelings and calming down» 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 7 · ★ · Feelings and calming down

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Why is it a good idea to wait until you are calm before solving a quarrel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, wait, solve · **To what, where:** good idea, quarrel

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 53 «Feelings and calming down» 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/53-feelings-and-calming-down/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t7:1
# text = Why is it a good idea to wait until you are calm before solving a quarrel?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	csubj	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	solving	solve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a good idea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **solve** | gerund | you *not said here* | a quarrel |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Topic |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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So the other person forgets what happened and you never have to talk about it

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t7:o1:1
# text = So the other person forgets what happened and you never have to talk about it
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	forgets	forget	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
7	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | present | the other person |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **talk** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about person | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Because calm people always win

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t7:o2:1
# text = Because calm people always win
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | present | calm people |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Because the quarrel will solve itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t7:o3:1
# text = Because the quarrel will solve itself
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	solve	solve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **solve** | future | the quarrel | quarrel |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Topic |

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

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When you are calm you can think and listen better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:53-feelings-and-calming-down:t7:o4:1
# text = When you are calm you can think and listen better
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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