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Test 1 · A day at a grown-up's job

Overheard on the phone: "Yeah, she's my line manager, so it's her call, not mine." What does that tell you?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, manager, that · What happens: overhear, be, tell · To what, where: phone, line manager, call, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 1 «A day at a grown-up's job» of the adult life 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Overheard on the phone: "Yeah, she's my line manager, so it's her call, not mine."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 phone	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Overheard	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 manager	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 manager	punct
7	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	13 manager	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Yeah	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 manager	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 manager	cop
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 manager	nmod:poss
12	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 manager	compound
13	manager	manager	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Overheard	obl:agent
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 call	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 call	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 call	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 call	cop
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 call	nmod:poss
19	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 manager	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mine	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 mine	advmod
22	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 call	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 call	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 manager	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overhear	participle				the phone			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a in a quote	present	she	my line manager					tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	manager	her call				mine nmod	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: What does that tell you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	that		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The other woman is her boss and gets to decide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boss	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boss	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boss	nmod:poss
6	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gets	cc
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boss	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 decide	mark
10	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the other woman	woman's boss					tree rules
2	get	present	the other woman not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	decide	to-infinitive	the other woman not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The other woman is a customer phoning in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 customer	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 customer	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 customer	det
6	customer	customer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	phoning	phone	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 customer	acl
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 phoning	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the other woman	a customer					tree rules
2	phone in	gerund	a customer not said here						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They are colleagues and both decide equally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 colleagues	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 colleagues	cop
3	colleagues	colleague	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 decide	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 colleagues	cc
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 decide	nsubj
6	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	equally	equally	ADV	_	6 decide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	colleagues					tree rules
2	decide	present	colleagues					equally property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The other woman works for her and must obey her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 works	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 obey	cc
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 obey	aux
9	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 works	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 obey	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the other woman					for her = she	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for she=Beneficiary
2	obey	must	the other woman not said here	woman					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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