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title: Mia: "Mum, you wear a jumper in July. You're not a thermometer." Wha… — "Because I said so" and other dead-end… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mia: "Mum, you wear a jumper in July. You're not a thermometer." What should actually decide about the coat? Test 4 of lesson 163 «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 4 · "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons

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Mia: "Mum, you wear a jumper in July. You're not a thermometer." What should actually decide about the coat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mia, You · **What happens:** wear, not be, decide · **To what, where:** jumper, thermometer

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This is test 4 of lesson 163 «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» of the world 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/world/163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mia: "Mum, you wear a jumper in July.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons:t4:1
# text = Mia: "Mum, you wear a jumper in July.
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	jumper	jumper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** *in a quote* | present | Mia | a jumper |  |  | july |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent jumper=Source |

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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:* You're not a thermometer."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons:t4:2
# text = You're not a thermometer."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | You | a thermometer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* What should actually decide about the coat?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons:t4:3
# text = What should actually decide about the coat?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	decide	decide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | should |  |  |  |  |  | about the coat; actually *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Whatever Mia feels at that moment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons:t4:o1:1
# text = Whatever Mia feels at that moment
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obj	_	_
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | Mia | Whatever |  |  | moment |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Whatever Mum feels at that moment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons:t4:o2:1
# text = Whatever Mum feels at that moment
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	obj	_	_
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | Mum | Whatever |  |  | moment |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme |

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

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A check of the real weather, and maybe taking it just in case

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons:t4:o3:1
# text = A check of the real weather, and maybe taking it just in case
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | weather |  |  |  | maybe *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme case=Destination |
| 2 | **check** |  | the real weather |  |  |  |  |  | nom check «possession intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Never wearing coats at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons:t4:o4:1
# text = Never wearing coats at all
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wear** | gerund |  | coats |  | all |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |

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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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