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title: watching my lil sis for 5 min while mum's outside, can i go upstairs — A new baby, looking after siblings and… · tree and pragmatics
description: watching my lil sis for 5 min while mum's outside, can i go upstairs Test 13 of lesson 95 «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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 13 · A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents

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watching my lil sis for 5 min while mum's outside, can i go upstairs

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** i, mum · **What happens:** watch, be, go · **To what, where:** lil sis

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This is test 13 of lesson 95 «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:95-babies-siblings-and-parents:t13:1
# text = watching my lil sis for 5 min while mum's outside, can i go upstairs
1	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	lil	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sis	sis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	min	minute	NOUN	NNS	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund | i *not said here* | my lil sis |  |  | minute |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sis=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | mum |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | can | i |  |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if she is watching TV

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:95-babies-siblings-and-parents:t13:o1:1
# text = Yes, if she is watching TV
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present · progressive | she | TV |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, she will be totally fine on her own for 5 min

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:95-babies-siblings-and-parents:t13:o2:1
# text = Yes, she will be totally fine on her own for 5 min
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	min	min	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | she |  |  | her own |  | for 5 min; fine, totally *property* | tree rules |

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

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Keep her in sight and call mum if anything goes wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:95-babies-siblings-and-parents:t13:o3:1
# text = Keep her in sight and call mum if anything goes wrong
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
10	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  | sight |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in sight=Location |
| 2 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | mum |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
| 3 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | anything |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, lock her in the room first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:95-babies-siblings-and-parents:t13:o4:1
# text = Yes, lock her in the room first
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lock	lock	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | imperative | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  | the room |  | first *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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