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title: What would most likely happen if a child shouted «Help! This is not… — Strangers and tricky people · tree and pragmatics
description: What would most likely happen if a child shouted «Help! This is not my dad!» in a busy shop? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Strangers and tricky people» 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 6 · ★★ · Strangers and tricky people

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What would most likely happen if a child shouted «Help! This is not my dad!» in a busy shop?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** child, This · **What happens:** happen, shout, not be · **To what, where:** child, Help, dad, busy shop

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Strangers and tricky people» 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/58-strangers-and-tricky-people/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* What would most likely happen if a child shouted «Help!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:58-strangers-and-tricky-people:t6:1
# text = What would most likely happen if a child shouted «Help!
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  | a child |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle | a child *not said here* | Help |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=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.

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*Sentence 2:* This is not my dad!» in a busy shop?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:58-strangers-and-tricky-people:t6:2
# text = This is not my dad!» in a busy shop?
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | This | my dad |  | a busy shop |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Everyone would ignore it as a joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:58-strangers-and-tricky-people:t6:o1:1
# text = Everyone would ignore it as a joke
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | would | Everyone | it |  |  |  | as a joke | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The child would be in trouble for shouting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:58-strangers-and-tricky-people:t6:o2:1
# text = The child would be in trouble for shouting
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the child |  |  | trouble |  | for shouting | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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People nearby would notice and come to help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:58-strangers-and-tricky-people:t6:o3:1
# text = People nearby would notice and come to help
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | would | People |  |  |  |  | nearby *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nobody would understand what was wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:58-strangers-and-tricky-people:t6:o4:1
# text = Nobody would understand what was wrong
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | would | Nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | 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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