Test 9 · ★ · Birthday parties

got an invite, cant go tho, just ignore it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get, go, ignore · To what, where: invite, cant

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 invite	det
3	invite	invite	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 got	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cant	punct
5	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invite	conj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 got	parataxis
7	tho	tho	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ignore	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 ignore	advmod
10	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 go	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ignore	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	a invite and cant		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer invite=Stimulus
2	go	infinitive		tho property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ignore	infinitive	cant		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice

Throw it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Throw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	imperative	you not said here	it				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Ignore it, they'll guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 guess	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 guess	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 guess	aux
6	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ignore	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	guess	future	they						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Still reply: thank you for inviting me, I'm sorry I can't come

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Still	still	ADV	_	2 reply	advmod
2	reply	reply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
4	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reply	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thank	obj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 inviting	mark
7	inviting	invite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 thank	advcl
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 inviting	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sorry	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sorry	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sorry	cop
12	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reply	parataxis
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
14	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 come	advmod
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sorry	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		still		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thank speech: thank	present		you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	invite	gerund		me			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	is	present	I			sorry property	tree rules
5	not come	can	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Tell them on the very day of the party, when they're getting ready

The tree, 14 words

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	on	on	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 day	advmod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 party	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 party	det
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 getting	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 getting	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 getting	nsubj
13	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 getting	aux
14	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tell	conj
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		them = they		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	get	present · progressive	they					ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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