Test 18 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

apparently that girl got the same Lego set twice for her birthday and told her aunty to her face it was rubbish. what's the lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, aunty, lesson · What happens: get, tell, be · To what, where: same Lego set, aunty, rubbish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 set	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 set	amod
7	Lego	Lego	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 set	compound
8	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 got	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 birthday	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 birthday	nmod:poss
12	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 aunty	nmod:poss
16	aunty	aunty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	iobj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rubbish	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rubbish	cop
22	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 got	parataxis
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 what	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lesson	det
27	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 what	nsubj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	that girl	the same Lego set		for girl's birthday; apparently, twice property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent set=Theme for birthday=Source
2	tell speech: assert	past	that girl not said here		girl's aunty	to girl's face	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent aunty=Topic to face=Recipient
3	is a	past	aunty	rubbish			tree rules
4	is a	present	the lesson				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

Tell the giver straight away it's a double, so they can change it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giver	det
3	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	iobj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 double	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 double	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 double	det
9	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 change	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 change	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 change	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 change	aux
14	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		the giver	away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent giver=Recipient
2	is	present	giver			double property	tree rules
3	change	can	they	giver			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Give the second one back at the party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 party	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 party	det
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	the second one		the party			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Theme at party=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Thank both givers; swap one later, never in front of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 givers	det
3	givers	giver	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thank	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 swap	punct
5	swap	swap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Thank	parataxis
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 swap	obj
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 swap	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 front	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 front	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swap	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present		both givers					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giver=Theme
2	swap	infinitive		one		front of givers		late property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 4

Keep both and say nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Keep	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	both					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	you not said here	nothing		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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