Test 11 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

unknown number keeps calling me

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: unknown number · What happens: keep, call · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 number	amod
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 keeps	xcomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 calling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	unknown number						tree rules
2	call	gerund	unknown number not said here		me				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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

Text them your address

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Text	text	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Text	obj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 address	nmod:poss
4	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Text	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	text	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	address		your						nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Call it back straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Call	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Call	advmod
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call back speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it				away property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Let a parent answer or ignore it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 parent	det
3	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 ignore	cc
6	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answer	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	a parent	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	infinitive	a parent not said here		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ignore	infinitive	a parent not said here	parent	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Answer it and give them your full name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Answer	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 give	cc
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Answer	conj
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 name	amod
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	give	infinitive	you not said here	your full name	them = they	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient name=Theme
3	name		your			nom name «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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