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title: Which sentence is most likely to calm a quarrel down? — Solving disagreements calmly · tree and pragmatics
description: Which sentence is most likely to calm a quarrel down? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 54 «Solving disagreements calmly» 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 2 · ★ · Solving disagreements calmly

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Which sentence is most likely to calm a quarrel down?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sentence · **What happens:** be, calm down · **To what, where:** quarrel

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 54 «Solving disagreements calmly» 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/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:54-solving-disagreements-calmly:t2:1
# text = Which sentence is most likely to calm a quarrel down?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	calm	calm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which sentence |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **calm down** | to-infinitive | which sentence *not said here* | a quarrel |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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I feel left out when you two whisper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:54-solving-disagreements-calmly:t2:o1:1
# text = I feel left out when you two whisper
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	xcomp	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | I | two whisper |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **leave out** | participle | two whisper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Nobody likes you anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:54-solving-disagreements-calmly:t2:o2:1
# text = Nobody likes you anyway
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | Nobody | you |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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I am never playing with either of you again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:54-solving-disagreements-calmly:t2:o3:1
# text = I am never playing with either of you again
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **play** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  | again | with either | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with either=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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You two are so rude and mean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:54-solving-disagreements-calmly:t2:o4:1
# text = You two are so rude and mean
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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