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title: Ruby's friend: "Look at Ruby, learning stuff. Character development.… — Saying "I was wrong" and laughing with… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ruby's friend: "Look at Ruby, learning stuff. Character development." What did Ruby do? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 190 «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 6 · ★ · Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel

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Ruby's friend: "Look at Ruby, learning stuff. Character development." What did Ruby do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, Ruby · **What happens:** look, learn, do · **To what, where:** stuff

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 190 «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» 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/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ruby's friend: "Look at Ruby, learning stuff.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel:t6:1
# text = Ruby's friend: "Look at Ruby, learning stuff.
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ruby's friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Ruby | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ruby=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** *in a quote* | gerund | Ruby's friend *not said here* | stuff |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Topic |

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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:* Character development."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel:t6:2
# text = Character development."
1	Character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 3:* What did Ruby do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel:t6:3
# text = What did Ruby do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **do** | past · do-support | Ruby |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

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

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Said "thanks, I didn't know that"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel:t6:o1:1
# text = Said "thanks, I didn't know that"
1	Said	Said	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Argued with the teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel:t6:o2:1
# text = Argued with the teacher
1	Argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the teacher | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with teacher=Co-Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Said tomatoes are vegetables again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel:t6:o3:1
# text = Said tomatoes are vegetables again
1	Said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Said tomatoes | vegetables |  |  | again |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ignored the teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel:t6:o4:1
# text = Ignored the teacher
1	Ignored	ignore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | participle |  | the teacher |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=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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