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title: Hassan's cousin plays French tapes all night. What would happen if H… — Your amazing brain and senses · tree and pragmatics
description: Hassan's cousin plays French tapes all night. What would happen if Hassan tested his French after a week? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 2 «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 7 · ★ · Your amazing brain and senses

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Hassan's cousin plays French tapes all night. What would happen if Hassan tested his French after a week?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cousin, Hassan · **What happens:** play, happen, test · **To what, where:** French tapes, French

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2 «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths 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/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Hassan's cousin plays French tapes all night.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses:t7:1
# text = Hassan's cousin plays French tapes all night.
1	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tapes	tape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | Hassan's cousin | French tapes |  |  | night |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tape=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 would happen if Hassan tested his French after a week?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses:t7:2
# text = What would happen if Hassan tested his French after a week?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tested	test	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **test** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Hassan | Hassan's French |  |  | week |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He'd speak fluent French by Friday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses:t7:o1:1
# text = He'd speak fluent French by Friday
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fluent	fluent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | would | He | fluent French |  |  | friday |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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He'd know little new; learning awake before sleep works better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses:t7:o2:1
# text = He'd know little new; learning awake before sleep works better
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
8	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
12	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | would | He | little new |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | gerund |  |  |  |  | before sleep | awake *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** | present | learning |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He'd only dream in French but speak it perfectly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses:t7:o3:1
# text = He'd only dream in French but speak it perfectly
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dream	dream	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | would | He |  |  | French |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | He *not said here* | it |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He'd forget English instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses:t7:o4:1
# text = He'd forget English instead
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | would | He | English |  |  |  | instead *property* | tree rules |

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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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