Test 19 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

my mate's saying that kid only gave a homemade card at the party cos his family's poor. should u spread it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, saying, u, mate · What happens: give, co, spread, say · To what, where: saying, party, poor, card · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mate	case
4	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cos	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 gave	obj
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 gave	advmod
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 card	det
10	homemade	homemade	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 card	amod
11	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 party	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 party	det
14	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl
15	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 family	nmod:poss
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 poor	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 family	case
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cos	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cos	punct
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 spread	aux
22	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 spread	nsubj
23	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cos	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 spread	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 cos	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	give	past	kid	my mate's saying	the party	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent that=Recipient card=Theme at party=Asset
2	co	present	my mate's saying	kid's family's poor		tree rules
3	spread	should	u	card		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	say		my mate			nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Yes, so people know why

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 know	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	people						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, homemade gifts are fine and that gossip is mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fine	punct
3	homemade	homemade	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gifts	amod
4	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fine	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mean	cc
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 gossip	det
9	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mean	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mean	cop
11	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	homemade gifts					fine property	tree rules
2	is	present	that gossip					mean property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it's just what happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it						tree rules
2	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if you don't say his name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 say	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	you	his name					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	name		his = he						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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