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title: Mr Hughes: "I hear I was in intensive care? Lovely. I had a sniffle… — The rumour that grows · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr Hughes: "I hear I was in intensive care? Lovely. I had a sniffle and a Lemsip." Who is he teasing? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 167 «The rumour that grows» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★ · The rumour that grows

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Mr Hughes: "I hear I was in intensive care? Lovely. I had a sniffle and a Lemsip." Who is he teasing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mr, I · **What happens:** hear, be, have, tease · **To what, where:** intensive care, sniffle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 167 «The rumour that grows» 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/167-the-rumour-that-grows/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mr Hughes: "I hear I was in intensive care?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows:t1:1
# text = Mr Hughes: "I hear I was in intensive care?
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Hughes	Hughes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	intensive	intensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | Mr |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  | intensive care |  |  | 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:* Lovely.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows:t1:2
# text = Lovely.
1	Lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 3:* I had a sniffle and a Lemsip."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows:t1:3
# text = I had a sniffle and a Lemsip."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sniffle	sniffle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Lemsip	Lemsip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | a sniffle and a Lemsip |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sniffle=Patient |

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*Sentence 4:* Who is he teasing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows:t1:4
# text = Who is he teasing?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tease** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The story that grew, not any one child

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows:t1:o1:1
# text = The story that grew, not any one child
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the story | any one child |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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People who drink Lemsip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows:t1:o2:1
# text = People who drink Lemsip
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	Lemsip	Lemsip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | People | Lemsip |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemsip=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The school nurse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows:t1:o3:1
# text = The school nurse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Himself for being ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows:t1:o4:1
# text = Himself for being ill
1	Himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
2	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | Himself *= he* |  |  |  |  | ill *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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