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Test 9 · ★★ · A guest at the table, and manners on the phone

Your friend calls at 10 p.m. to ask about homework. What would be better next time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: call, ask, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Your friend calls at 10 p.m. to ask about homework.

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 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	nsubj
3	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 p.m.	case
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 p.m.	nummod
6	p.m.	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ask	mark
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 calls	advcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 homework	case
10	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	Your friend					at 10 p.m.	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at p.m.=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Your friend not said here					about homework	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about homework=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 would be better next time?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 better	obl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 better	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	obl:unmarked
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would					time	good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Call even later at night, when the parents are fast asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 later	advmod
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Call	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asleep	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 asleep	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 parents	det
9	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 asleep	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 asleep	cop
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 asleep	advmod
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Call	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here				night	late property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the parents					asleep, fast property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Call earlier, between about 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Call	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 9	punct
4	between	between	ADP	_	6 9	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 9	advmod
6	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Call	parataxis
7	a.m.	a.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 9	nmod:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 8	cc
9	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 9	conj
10	p.m.	p.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 8	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	imperative	you not said here					early property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Call at 6 a.m. instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 6	case
3	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Call	obl
4	a.m.	a.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 6	nmod:unmarked
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here					at 6 a.m.; instead property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at 6=Stimulus

Option 4

Call five times so someone answers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 times	nummod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Call	obl:unmarked
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 answers	advmod
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 answers	nsubj
6	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Call	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here				time		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	present	someone						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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