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title: Siobhan whispers all day to save her voice. Better plan? — The World Cup · tree and pragmatics
description: Siobhan whispers all day to save her voice. Better plan? Test 7 of lesson 61 «The World Cup» 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 7 · The World Cup

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Siobhan whispers all day to save her voice. Better plan?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Siobhan · **What happens:** whisper, save · **To what, where:** voice

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This is test 7 of lesson 61 «The World Cup» 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/61-the-world-cup/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Siobhan whispers all day to save her voice.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:61-the-world-cup:t7:1
# text = Siobhan whispers all day to save her voice.
1	Siobhan	Siobhan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	whispers	whisper	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | Siobhan |  |  |  | day |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **save** | to-infinitive | Siobhan *not said here* | Siobhan's voice |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=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:* Better plan?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:61-the-world-cup:t7:2
# text = Better plan?
1	Better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Eat salty crisps to soothe the throat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:61-the-world-cup:t7:o1:1
# text = Eat salty crisps to soothe the throat
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crisps	crisp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	soothe	soothe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | salty crisps |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Patient |
| 2 | **soothe** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the throat |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus throat=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shout loudly to stretch the cords back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:61-the-world-cup:t7:o2:1
# text = Shout loudly to stretch the cords back
1	Shout	shout	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stretch back** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the cords |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cord=Patient |

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

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Rest the voice and sip water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:61-the-world-cup:t7:o3:1
# text = Rest the voice and sip water
1	Rest	rest	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sip	sip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | imperative | you *not said here* | the voice |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=Theme |
| 2 | **sip** | infinitive | you *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Whisper even more to keep it working

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:61-the-world-cup:t7:o4:1
# text = Whisper even more to keep it working
1	Whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Whisper | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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