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title: Jamie's dad says «Stay with me, kidda». What does «kidda» mean? — VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries · tree and pragmatics
description: Jamie's dad says «Stay with me, kidda». What does «kidda» mean? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 65 «VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries» 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 8 · ★★ · VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries

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Jamie's dad says «Stay with me, kidda». What does «kidda» mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dad, kidda · **What happens:** say, stay, mean · **To what, where:** kidda · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 65 «VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries» 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/65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jamie's dad says «Stay with me, kidda».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries:t8:1
# text = Jamie's dad says «Stay with me, kidda».
1	Jamie	Jamie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	kidda	kidda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 | Jamie's dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | kidda |  |  |  | with Jamie's dad *= dad* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |

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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 does «kidda» mean?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries:t8:2
# text = What does «kidda» mean?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	kidda	kidda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | kidda |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Kid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries:t8:o1:1
# text = Kid
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ticket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries:t8:o2:1
# text = Ticket
1	Ticket	ticket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Goalkeeper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries:t8:o3:1
# text = Goalkeeper
1	Goalkeeper	goalkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Steward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:65-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries:t8:o4:1
# text = Steward
1	Steward	steward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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