Test 22 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

at a visit your friend's step-dad says "your mum and I got together last spring". what does "got together" mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: step dad · What happens: say, get together, do, mean · To what, where: visit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 22 · ★ 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	at	at	ADP	_	3 visit	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 visit	det
3	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	obl
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dad	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 friend	case
7	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dad	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 step	punct
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 mum	punct
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mum	nmod:poss
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 got	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
17	together	together	ADV	_	16 got	advmod
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 spring	amod
19	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 got	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 does	nsubj
23	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	parataxis
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
25	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 does	ccomp
26	together	together	ADV	_	25 got	advmod
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
28	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 got	xcomp
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	your friend's step dad	a visit			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	get together in a quote	past	your friend's step dad = dad		spring	together property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	do	present					tree rules
4	get together in a quote	past				together property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	mean	infinitive					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They started being a couple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 couple	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 couple	det
5	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 started	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	They						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	gerund	They not said here	a couple					tree rules

Option 2

They met at a meeting for work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 meeting	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meeting	det
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 met	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 work	case
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meeting	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	They			a meeting for work			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They had a big fight last spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fight	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fight	amod
5	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spring	amod
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	a big fight			spring		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Patient

Option 4

They went on a school trip together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 trip	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trip	det
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trip	compound
6	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	together	together	ADV	_	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	They			a school trip		together property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trip=Location

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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