Test 1 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

Which is good phone manners on a train?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: good phone manners, train

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 222 «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 manners	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 manners	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 manners	amod
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 manners	compound
5	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 train	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 train	det
8	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 manners	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 manners	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		good phone manners		a train			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 · ← Mova's choice

A long video call on loudspeaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 call	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 call	amod
3	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	compound
4	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 loudspeaker	case
6	loudspeaker	loudspeaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Shouting so the other person hears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 hears	csubj
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 person	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shouting	obl
6	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund						so the other person	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	present	Shouting						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A short, quiet call

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 call	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 call	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 short	punct
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 call	amod
5	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Playing music during the call

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obj
3	during	during	ADP	_	5 call	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 call	det
5	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		music			during the call		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=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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