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Test 8 · ★ · Birthday parties

You cannot come to a party because you are visiting your grandma. What is the polite way to answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, polite way · What happens: not come, visit, be, answer · To what, where: party, grandma

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 130 «Birthday parties» 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: You cannot come to a party because you are visiting your grandma.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 party	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 party	det
7	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 visiting	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 visiting	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 visiting	aux
11	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 come	advcl
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 grandma	nmod:poss
13	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 visiting	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	can	You			a party			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location
2	visit	present · progressive	you	your grandma					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Co-Agent

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 is the polite way to answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 answer	mark
7	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the polite way						tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	the polite way not said here						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Say yes and then simply not turn up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	1 Say	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 turn	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 turn	advmod
5	simply	simply	ADV	_	7 turn	advmod
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 turn	advmod
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 turn	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	not turn up	infinitive	you not said here				then	simply property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Do not answer at all, since you are not coming and they will work it out

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 answer	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 answer	advmod
3	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 answer	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 coming	punct
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 coming	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 coming	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 coming	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 coming	advmod
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 answer	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 work	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 work	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 work	aux
15	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answer	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 work	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 work	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here			all			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not come	present · progressive	you						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	work out	future	they	it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Tell them your grandma is more fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grandma	nmod:poss
4	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fun	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fun	cop
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 fun	amod
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is a	present	your grandma	more fun					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Thank them for inviting you and say you are sorry you cannot come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Thank	obj
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 inviting	mark
4	inviting	invite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Thank	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 inviting	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Thank	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 sorry	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sorry	cop
10	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sorry	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			them = they				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	invite	gerund			you				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	present							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	you					sorry property	tree rules
5	not come	can	you						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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