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title: After an angry shout at dinner, what repairs things best? — Handling anger · tree and pragmatics
description: After an angry shout at dinner, what repairs things best? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 89 «Handling anger» 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 6 · ★ · Handling anger

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After an angry shout at dinner, what repairs things best?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** repair · **To what, where:** things

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 89 «Handling anger» 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/89-handling-anger/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:89-handling-anger:t6:1
# text = After an angry shout at dinner, what repairs things best?
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
9	repairs	repair	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repair** | present |  | things |  |  | after a angry shout at dinner |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Shouting again so that it is even

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:89-handling-anger:t6:o1:1
# text = Shouting again so that it is even
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  | again | so it | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | present | Shouting |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Saying nothing and just waiting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:89-handling-anger:t6:o2:1
# text = Saying nothing and just waiting
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Saying sorry once you are calm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:89-handling-anger:t6:o3:1
# text = Saying sorry once you are calm
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	_
3	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Leaving the house without a word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:89-handling-anger:t6:o4:1
# text = Leaving the house without a word
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund |  | the house |  |  |  | without a word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |

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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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