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title: A brother finds a sharp knife and wants to play pirates with it. Wha… — Doctors, cuts and grazes · tree and pragmatics
description: A brother finds a sharp knife and wants to play pirates with it. What is right? Test 7 of lesson 83 «Doctors, cuts and grazes» 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 right.
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# Test 7 · Doctors, cuts and grazes

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A brother finds a sharp knife and wants to play pirates with it. What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** find, want, play, be · **To what, where:** sharp knife, pirates

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This is test 7 of lesson 83 «Doctors, cuts and grazes» 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/83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A brother finds a sharp knife and wants to play pirates with it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes:t7:1
# text = A brother finds a sharp knife and wants to play pirates with it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	pirates	pirate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | a brother | a sharp knife |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic |
| 2 | **want** | present | a brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a brother *not said here* | pirates |  |  |  | with knife | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent pirate=Theme with it=Co-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 is right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes:t7:2
# text = What is right?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Wrap it in paper and then play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes:t7:o1:1
# text = Wrap it in paper and then play
1	Wrap	wrap	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | paper |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in paper=Destination |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Play carefully if you are both over eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes:t7:o2:1
# text = Play carefully if you are both over eight
1	Play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	both	both	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | both, over *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Do not play with it and tell an adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes:t7:o3:1
# text = Do not play with it and tell an adult
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **play** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with it | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Play only outdoors on the grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:83-doctors-cuts-and-grazes:t7:o4:1
# text = Play only outdoors on the grass
1	Play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the grass |  | outdoors *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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