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title: Kofi's mate texts at midnight: "cant sleep. its fine tho. just think… — Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kofi's mate texts at midnight: "cant sleep. its fine tho. just thinking bout stuff. dont tell my mum." Which word is the downplaying one? Test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★

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Kofi's mate texts at midnight: "cant sleep. its fine tho. just thinking bout stuff. dont tell my mum." Which word is the downplaying one?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate texts, word · **What happens:** think, tell, downplay, be · **To what, where:** bout stuff, mum, downplaying one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» 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/31-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Kofi's mate texts at midnight: "cant sleep. its fine tho. just thinking bout stuff. dont tell my mum."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:31-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times:t1:1
# text = Kofi's mate texts at midnight: "cant sleep. its fine tho. just thinking bout stuff. dont tell my mum."
1	Kofi	Kofi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tho	tho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
18	bout	bout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
21	dont	dont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | Kofi's mate texts at midnight and cant sleep and its fine tho *not said here* | bout stuff |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stuff=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Kofi's mate texts at midnight and cant sleep and its fine tho |  | my mum |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |

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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:* Which word is the downplaying one?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:31-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times:t1:2
# text = Which word is the downplaying one?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	downplaying	downplay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **downplay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | which word | the downplaying one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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"thinking"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:31-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times:t1:o1:1
# text = "thinking"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	thinking	thinking	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.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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"stuff"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:31-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times:t1:o2:1
# text = "stuff"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	stuff	stuff	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.

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

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"fine"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:31-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times:t1:o3:1
# text = "fine"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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"sleep"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:reflection:31-olympiad-reading-hidden-feelings-in-hard-times:t1:o4:1
# text = "sleep"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	sleep	sleep	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.

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