Test 21 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

big sis is making a card with hearts for "someone special, don't you DARE tell" — what is it and what's right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: big sis, you · What happens: make, not tell, be · To what, where: card · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 21 · ★ 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	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sis	amod
2	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 making	aux
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 tell	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 card	det
6	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 hearts	case
8	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 making	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 someone	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 someone	punct
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 making	obl
12	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 someone	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 making	punct
14	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 tell	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 tell	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
17	DARE	dare	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 right	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 right	cop
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 right	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 right	cc
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 right	nsubj
26	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 right	cop
27	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tell	ccomp
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present · progressive	big sis	a card	with hearts; for someone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent card=Product for someone=Beneficiary
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	dare · infinitive · do-support	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			right property	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

It's a valentine for you, so open it

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 valentine	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 valentine	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 valentine	det
4	valentine	valentine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 valentine	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 open	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 open	advmod
9	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 valentine	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 open	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a valentine				for you	tree rules
2	open	infinitive		valentine					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 2

It's a fake birthday card, throw it away

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	6 card	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 card	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 card	det
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 card	amod
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 card	compound
6	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 throw	punct
8	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 card	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 throw	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 throw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a fake birthday card					tree rules
2	throw away	infinitive		card				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

It's a get-well card for a teacher, so show the teacher

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 card	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 card	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 card	det
4	get-well	get-well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 card	compound
5	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 teacher	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 card	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 show	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 show	advmod
11	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 card	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 teacher	det
13	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a get-well card				for a teacher	tree rules
2	show	infinitive			the teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's probably for someone she likes or goes out with; keep her happy secret

The tree, 15 words

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 someone	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 someone	cop
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 someone	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 someone	case
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 likes	nsubj
7	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 someone	acl:relcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 goes	cc
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 likes	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 goes	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	9 goes	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 someone	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 secret	nmod:poss
15	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 secret	amod
16	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		for someone; probably property	tree rules
2	like	present	she			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	go out	present	she not said here			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	keep	infinitive		her happy secret		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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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