Test 15 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

Why must Kai tell his mum before going to a friend's house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kai · What happens: tell, go · To what, where: mum, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tell	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tell	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 house	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 friend	det
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 friend	case
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must	Kai		Kai's mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
2	go	gerund	Kai not said here			a friend's house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

So she knows where he is if something goes wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 knows	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 is	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 is	nsubj
6	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	ccomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 goes	mark
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	advcl
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 goes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	know	present	she		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	present	he		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go a condition, not said to happen	present	something	wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Mums like knowing everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	SCONJ	_	3 knowing	mark
3	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Mums	acl
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 knowing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	gerund	Mums not said here	everything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

Option 3

It is only a rule for weekends

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 rule	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rule	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 rule	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rule	det
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 weekends	case
7	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rule	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rule			weekend		tree rules

Option 4

So she can buy a present

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 buy	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 buy	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 buy	aux
4	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 present	det
6	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	can	she	a present					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=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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