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title: Ruby: "June, obviously!" Auntie: "Whose mum is it?" What is the answ… — Trick questions that catch quick think… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ruby: "June, obviously!" Auntie: "Whose mum is it?" What is the answer? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 181 «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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 7 · ★ · Trick questions that catch quick thinkers

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Ruby: "June, obviously!" Auntie: "Whose mum is it?" What is the answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum, answer · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Auntie

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 181 «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ruby: "June, obviously!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t7:1
# text = Ruby: "June, obviously!"
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Auntie: "Whose mum is it?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t7:2
# text = Auntie: "Whose mum is it?"
1	Auntie	auntie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | mum | Auntie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* What is the answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t7:3
# text = What is the answer?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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June

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t7:o1:1
# text = June
1	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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April

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t7:o2:1
# text = April
1	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Mike

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t7:o3:1
# text = Mike
1	Mike	Mike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ruby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t7:o4:1
# text = Ruby
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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