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Test 6 · Greeting friends and relatives

Your aunt in Ireland calls to say happy birthday. What will make her happiest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aunt · What happens: call, say, make · To what, where: happy birthday, happiest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 122 «Greeting friends and relatives» of the everyday 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: Your aunt in Ireland calls to say happy birthday.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunt	nmod:poss
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calls	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 aunt	nmod
5	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 calls	xcomp
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birthday	amod
9	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	Your aunt in Ireland						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Your aunt in Ireland not said here	happy birthday					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent birthday=Topic

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 will make her happiest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 make	obj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 happiest	nmod:poss
5	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 make	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	future		aunt's happiest					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary happy=Product

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Passing the phone on straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phone	det
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Passing	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	1 Passing	compound:prt
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	1 Passing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	gerund		the phone				away property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme

Option 2

Asking how much money she put in the birthday card this year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 put	advcl
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 money	amod
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 card	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 card	det
9	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 card	compound
10	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund	she not said here	much money					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Recipient
2	put	past	she			the birthday card	year		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in card=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Thanking her and telling her something about your day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thanking	thank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Thanking	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 telling	cc
4	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Thanking	conj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 something	nmod:poss
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 telling	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 day	nmod:poss
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 telling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	gerund			her = she				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund		something			day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Recipient

Option 4

Answering every question with "Fine"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Answering	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Fine	csubj
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 question	det
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Answering	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 Fine	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Fine	punct
6	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Fine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	gerund		every question					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality

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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