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title: «Bit early, Dad?» — porridge at 8:30 for an 11:00 match. Why does Da… — Breakfast before a match and food after · tree and pragmatics
description: «Bit early, Dad?» — porridge at 8:30 for an 11:00 match. Why does Dad say it's right? Test 2 of lesson 53 «Breakfast before a match and food after» 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 right.
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# Test 2 · Breakfast before a match and food after

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«Bit early, Dad?» — porridge at 8:30 for an 11:00 match. Why does Dad say it's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dad, match · **What happens:** say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 of lesson 53 «Breakfast before a match and food after» 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/53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Bit early, Dad?» — porridge at 8:30 for an 11:00 match.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:t2:1
# text = «Bit early, Dad?» — porridge at 8:30 for an 11:00 match.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	8:30	8:30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	11:00	11:00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Why does Dad say it's right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:t2:2
# text = Why does Dad say it's right?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | match |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Porridge works only in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:t2:o1:1
# text = Porridge works only in the morning
1	Porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Porridge |  |  |  | morning |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It's the only time he can cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:t2:o2:1
# text = It's the only time he can cook
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the only time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cook** | can | he | the only time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent time=Patient |

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

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It gives the food time to go down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:t2:o3:1
# text = It gives the food time to go down
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | It |  |  |  | time |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go down** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It makes her too full to run

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:53-breakfast-before-a-match-and-food-after:t2:o4:1
# text = It makes her too full to run
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It | her *= she* |  |  |  | full *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product |
| 2 | **run** | to-infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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