Test 14 · ★ · Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness

a person i met in a game wants my address to send a present

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, person, address, my · What happens: meet, want, send, address · To what, where: person, game, address, present

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 216 «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	nsubj
3	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 person	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 game	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 game	det
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 address	nmod:poss
10	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 send	mark
12	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wants	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 present	det
14	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 send	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	meet	past	i	a person not said here	a game	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent
2	want	present	a person	my address		tree rules
3	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	my address not said here	a present		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme
4	address		my			nom address «communication transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1

Give it, presents are always nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nice	punct
4	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nice	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 nice	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 nice	advmod
7	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Give	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	presents					always, nice property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Don't give it, tell a parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 give	advmod
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 give	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 parent	det
8	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a parent				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

Option 3

Ask them to post it to a friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 post	mark
4	post	post	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 post	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 friend	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 friend	det
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 post	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		them = they				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	post not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	it	a friend				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to friend=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Give your school address instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 address	nmod:poss
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 address	compound
4	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	your school address				instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Theme
2	address		your						nom address «communication transitive»: poss=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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