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title: Archie avoids the park for weeks after mouthing off to the man. What… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty… · tree and pragmatics
description: Archie avoids the park for weeks after mouthing off to the man. What helped him more? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 16 «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 9 · ★ · Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean

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Archie avoids the park for weeks after mouthing off to the man. What helped him more?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Archie · **What happens:** avoid, mouth off, help · **To what, where:** park, Archie

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 16 «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection 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/reflection/16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Archie avoids the park for weeks after mouthing off to the man.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean:t9:1
# text = Archie avoids the park for weeks after mouthing off to the man.
1	Archie	Archie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	avoids	avoid	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	mouthing	mouth	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | present | Archie | the park |  |  | week |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent park=Location |
| 2 | **mouth off** | gerund | Archie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the man | tree rules |

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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 helped him more?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean:t9:2
# text = What helped him more?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past |  |  | Archie |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Never thinking about the park again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean:t9:o1:1
# text = Never thinking about the park again
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  | again | about the park | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about park=Topic |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Telling everyone at school that the man had been really rude to him first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean:t9:o2:1
# text = Telling everyone at school that the man had been really rude to him first
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	iobj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	really	really	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | everyone | school |  | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | the man |  | him *= he* |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Going back, picking up litter and saying sorry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean:t9:o3:1
# text = Going back, picking up litter and saying sorry
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
9	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pick up** | gerund |  | litter |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: apologize* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Finding a new park far away to play in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean:t9:o4:1
# text = Finding a new park far away to play in
1	Finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund |  | a new park |  |  |  | away *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent park=Topic |
| 2 | **play in** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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