Test 7 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

Which is true about presents?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 presents	case
5	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about presents; true 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

You should tell people what the prices were

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 tell	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prices	det
7	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 what	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	You		people				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
2	is a	past	the prices						tree rules

Option 2

Homemade gifts are not real presents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Homemade	homemade	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gifts	amod
2	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 presents	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 presents	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 presents	advmod
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 presents	amod
6	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Homemade gifts	real presents					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are about kindness, not money

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	4 kindness	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kindness	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 kindness	case
4	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 money	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 money	advmod
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kindness	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					about kindness and money	tree rules

Option 4

The more expensive, the better the friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 expensive	det
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 expensive	advmod
3	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 better	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 better	det
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 friend	det
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 better	nsubj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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