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title: Your brother writes "We should of left earlier." What should it be? — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics
description: Your brother writes "We should of left earlier." What should it be? Test 9 of lesson 3 «Verbs: doing words and being words» of the language 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 9 · Verbs: doing words and being words

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Your brother writes "We should of left earlier." What should it be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brother, We, it · **What happens:** write, leave, be

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This is test 9 of lesson 3 «Verbs: doing words and being words» of the language 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/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your brother writes "We should of left earlier."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words:t9:1
# text = Your brother writes "We should of left earlier."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | Your brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | should | We |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should it be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words:t9:2
# text = What should it be?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | should | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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We should off left earlier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words:t9:o1:1
# text = We should off left earlier
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	off	off	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	left	left	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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We should of leaved earlier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words:t9:o2:1
# text = We should of leaved earlier
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	leaved	leav	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leav** | should · passive |  | We |  |  |  | early *property* | tree rules |

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

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We should have left earlier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words:t9:o3:1
# text = We should have left earlier
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | should · perfect | We |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
We should has left earlier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words:t9:o4:1
# text = We should has left earlier
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | should · perfect | We |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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