Test 16 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

caller says i won a prize, just need mum's card number

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: caller, i · What happens: say, win, need · To what, where: prize, card number · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ 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	caller	caller	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 won	nsubj
4	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prize	det
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 won	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 need	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 need	advmod
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 card	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 mum	case
12	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 number	compound
13	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	caller		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	win	past	i	a prize	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality
3	need	present		card number	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot number=Theme

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

Read the number out quickly so you get the prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Read	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	1 Read	compound:prt
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Read	advmod
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 get	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Read	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prize	det
10	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read out	imperative	you not said here	the number				quickly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	get	present	you	the prize					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prize=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Give half the number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 number	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	half number					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme

Option 3

Ask for the prize first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 prize	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prize	det
4	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here					for the prize; first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It's a scam, hang up and tell an adult

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	4 scam	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scam	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scam	det
4	scam	scam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hang	punct
6	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 scam	parataxis
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 hang	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 hang	conj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a scam		tree rules
2	hang up	infinitive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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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