Test 16 · ★★ · A guest at the table, and manners on the phone

caller says you won a prize, just tell us your mum's card number

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: caller, you · What happens: say, win, tell · To what, where: prize, card number, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 128 «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	caller	caller	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 won	nsubj
4	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prize	det
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 tell	advmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	conj
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mum	nmod:poss
12	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 number	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 mum	case
14	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 number	compound
15	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	caller			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	win	past	you	a prize		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	caller not said here	your mum's card number	us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient number=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.

The options

Option 1

Read it out quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Read	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Read	compound:prt
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read out	imperative	you not said here	it				quickly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Give only half the number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 half	advmod
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 number	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 number	det
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	half number					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hang up and tell an adult, it's a scam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hang	conj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scam	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 scam	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 scam	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 scam	det
11	scam	scam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hang up	imperative	you not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	is a	present	adult	a scam		tree rules

Option 4

Ask them to call back for it later when your mum is home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 call	mark
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 call	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 call	obl
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 call	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 home	advmod
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 home	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 home	cop
13	home	home	ADV	_	4 call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	them = they		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	call back speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		for it; late property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for it=Recipient
3	is	present	your mum		home property	tree rules

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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