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title: Racing friend, after winning: "Lovely shoes though, Sam. Really fast… — Bets, dares and silly reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Racing friend, after winning: "Lovely shoes though, Sam. Really fast-looking." What is being teased? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 169 «Bets, dares and silly reasons» 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 w
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Bets, dares and silly reasons

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Racing friend, after winning: "Lovely shoes though, Sam. Really fast-looking." What is being teased?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** race, win, look, tease · **To what, where:** friend, Lovely shoes

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 169 «Bets, dares and silly 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/169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Racing friend, after winning: "Lovely shoes though, Sam.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons:t7:1
# text = Racing friend, after winning: "Lovely shoes though, Sam.
1	Racing	race	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	though	though	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **race** | gerund |  | friend |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Agent |
| 2 | **win** | gerund |  | Lovely shoes |  |  |  | though *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality |

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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:* Really fast-looking."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons:t7:2
# text = Really fast-looking."
1	Really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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*Sentence 3:* What is being teased?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons:t7:3
# text = What is being teased?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	teased	tease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	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 · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The shop that sold the shoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons:t7:o1:1
# text = The shop that sold the shoes
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past | the shop | the shoes |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sam for being slow on purpose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons:t7:o2:1
# text = Sam for being slow on purpose
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | Sam |  |  | purpose |  | slow *property* | tree rules |

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

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The idea that new shoes make you fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons:t7:o3:1
# text = The idea that new shoes make you fast
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | new shoes | you |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sam's taste in shoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons:t7:o4:1
# text = Sam's taste in shoes
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** |  | Sam |  |  | shoes |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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