Test 2 · ★★ · Video calls and visiting a friend's house
Why must a parent know where you are and when to collect you?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: parent, you · What happens: know, be, collect · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 know | advmod |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 parent | det |
| 4 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 know | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 where | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 where | cop |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 collect | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 collect | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 collect | mark |
| 12 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 collect | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | a parent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | you | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | collect | to-infinitive | a parent not said here | you | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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
So the friend's family can send a bill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 send | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 family | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 friend | case |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 send | aux |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bill | det |
| 9 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | can | the friend's family | a bill | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Theme |
Option 2
So they can plan their own day better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 plan | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 plan | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 plan | aux |
| 4 | plan | plan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 day | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plan | obj |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 plan | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | can | they | day | good property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
So they can keep you safe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 keep | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | obj |
| 6 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | can | they | you | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
Option 4
Because otherwise you cannot get in the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 2 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | can | you | the door | otherwise property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/t2/