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title: Little bro hates his patch and takes it off. Why should he keep it on? — The optician and glasses · tree and pragmatics
description: Little bro hates his patch and takes it off. Why should he keep it on? Test 5 of lesson 27 «The optician and glasses» of the medicine 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 5 · The optician and glasses

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Little bro hates his patch and takes it off. Why should he keep it on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Little bro, bro · **What happens:** hate, take off, keep on · **To what, where:** patch

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This is test 5 of lesson 27 «The optician and glasses» of the medicine 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/medicine/27-the-optician-and-glasses/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Little bro hates his patch and takes it off.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:t5:1
# text = Little bro hates his patch and takes it off.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hates	hate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | Little bro | bro's patch |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer patch=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take off** | present | Little bro *not said here* | patch |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:* Why should he keep it on?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:t5:2
# text = Why should he keep it on?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep on** | should | bro | patch |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It stops him squinting at the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:t5:o1:1
# text = It stops him squinting at the sun
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	squinting	squint	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | It | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **squint** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It's a punishment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:t5:o2:1
# text = It's a punishment
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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It trains the brain to use his weaker eye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:t5:o3:1
# text = It trains the brain to use his weaker eye
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trains	train	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | present | It | the brain |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent brain=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive | the brain *not said here* | his weaker eye |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It keeps germs out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:27-the-optician-and-glasses:t5:o4:1
# text = It keeps germs out
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep out** | present | It | germs |  |  |  | out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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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