Test 17 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

did u hear some scammer rang a kid and asked when his parents go to work and then they got robbed? real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, some, parents · What happens: hear, ring, ask, go, work, rob · To what, where: kid, parents · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 rang	nsubj
5	scammer	scammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rang	nsubj
6	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kid	det
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rang	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rang	conj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 go	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 parents	nmod:poss
13	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 go	nsubj
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 work	mark
16	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 robbed	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 robbed	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 robbed	nsubj:pass
20	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 robbed	aux:pass
21	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rang	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 robbed	punct
23	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lesson	amod
24	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 robbed	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	ring	past	some	a kid		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kid=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	some not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	present	scammer's parents			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	work	to-infinitive	scammer's parents not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rob	past · passive		parents = parent	then	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 · ✓ the right answer

Let a parent handle calls from unknown numbers

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	5 calls	det
3	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handle	compound
4	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calls	compound
5	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Let	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 numbers	case
7	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 numbers	amod
8	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	a handle calls		unknown numbers			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme

Option 2

It only happens to rich families

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	3 happens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 families	case
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 families	amod
6	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It					to rich families	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only answer if they say they're the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 answer	advmod
2	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 say	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 answer	advcl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bank	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bank	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bank	det
9	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	they		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	they	the bank	tree rules

Option 4

Answer politely and tell them the times if they ask nicely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	politely	politely	ADV	_	1 Answer	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Answer	conj
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 times	det
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obl:unmarked
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 ask	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ask	nsubj
10	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	advcl
11	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	10 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			politely property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	them = they	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	they			nicely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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