--- title: Your friend's brother hasn't come home and an adult says to wait 24… — Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules · tree and pragmatics description: Your friend's brother hasn't come home and an adult says to wait 24 hours. What's right? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 27 «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/) / [Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules Your friend's brother hasn't come home and an adult says to wait 24 hours. What's right? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** brother, adult · **What happens:** not come, say, wait, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 27 «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» 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/27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your friend's brother hasn't come home and an adult says to wait 24 hours. ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules:t6:1 # text = Your friend's brother hasn't come home and an adult says to wait 24 hours. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 home home ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 15 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **come** | present | Your friend's brother | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a adult | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **wait** | to-infinitive | | | | | hour | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* What's right? ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules:t6:2 # text = What's right? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Wait the full 24 hours first ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules:t6:o1:1 # text = Wait the full 24 hours first 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | hour | first *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Only tell the school on Monday ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules:t6:o2:1 # text = Only tell the school on Monday 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the school | | | monday | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent school=Recipient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Wait until next week ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules:t6:o3:1 # text = Wait until next week 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 2 until until ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | week | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Tell the police straight away ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:27-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules:t6:o4:1 # text = Tell the police straight away 1 Tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 straight straight ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the police | | | | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient | **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. 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