Test 15 · ★★ · Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?

Why is a fake call to the emergency number a serious thing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: fake call

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 204 «Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?» 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 call	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 call	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 call	det
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 call	amod
5	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 number	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 number	det
8	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 number	compound
9	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	nmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 number	appos
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fake call				to the emergency number	tree rules

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

The phone line breaks for a while afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 line	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 line	compound
3	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breaks	nsubj
4	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 while	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breaks	obl
8	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	4 breaks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	the phone line				while	afterwards property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can keep help away from someone really in danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 keep	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 someone	case
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 keep	obl
8	really	really	ADV	_	3 keep	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 danger	case
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	can	It	help		someone		in danger; away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent help=Theme in danger=Location

Option 3

The call costs your parents a great deal of money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 call	det
2	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 costs	nsubj
3	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 parents	nmod:poss
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 costs	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deal	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 costs	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 money	case
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	the call		your parents				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme parent=Beneficiary deal=Value
2	deal			money					nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

It is only a problem if you call on a birthday or holiday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 problem	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 problem	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 problem	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 problem	det
5	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 call	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 call	nsubj
8	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 problem	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 birthday	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 birthday	det
11	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 holiday	cc
13	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 birthday	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a problem					tree rules
2	call a condition, not said to happen	present	you			a birthday or holiday			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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