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title: A boy in Leeds has nothing to do on a wet afternoon. Which plan is m… — Boredom, excitement and pride · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Leeds has nothing to do on a wet afternoon. Which plan is most creative? Test 1 of lesson 93 «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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 1 · Boredom, excitement and pride

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A boy in Leeds has nothing to do on a wet afternoon. Which plan is most creative?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy, plan · **What happens:** have, do, be · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is test 1 of lesson 93 «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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/93-boredom-excitement-and-pride/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Leeds has nothing to do on a wet afternoon.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:93-boredom-excitement-and-pride:t1:1
# text = A boy in Leeds has nothing to do on a wet afternoon.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a boy in Leeds | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | a boy in Leeds *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  | afternoon |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:* Which plan is most creative?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:93-boredom-excitement-and-pride:t1:2
# text = Which plan is most creative?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	plan	plan	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	creative	creative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ask his mum what to do every ten minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:93-boredom-excitement-and-pride:t1:o1:1
# text = Ask his mum what to do every ten minutes
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | his mum |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | minute |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sit at the window and wait for the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:93-boredom-excitement-and-pride:t1:o2:1
# text = Sit at the window and wait for the sun
1	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the window |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the sun | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lie on the sofa and complain all day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:93-boredom-excitement-and-pride:t1:o3:1
# text = Lie on the sofa and complain all day
1	Lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	complain	complain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the sofa |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location |
| 2 | **complain** *speech: other* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Write and draw his own comic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:93-boredom-excitement-and-pride:t1:o4:1
# text = Write and draw his own comic
1	Write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	comic	comic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **draw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | his own comic |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comic=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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