Test 8 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

Which of these is a gift you should also write a thank-you note for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: these, you · What happens: be, write · To what, where: thank you note

This is test 8 · ★ 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	10 write	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 gift	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 gift	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gift	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gift	det
6	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 write	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 write	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 write	aux
9	also	also	ADV	_	10 write	advmod
10	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 note	det
12	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 note	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 thank	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 note	compound
15	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 write	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	15 note	case
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	these					of a gift	tree rules
2	write	should	you	a thank you note					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Recipient note=Topic

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

A day out at the zoo with your aunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 day	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 zoo	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 zoo	det
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 aunt	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 aunt	nmod:poss
9	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 zoo	nmod

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

Option 2

Someone holding a door for you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Someone	acl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holding	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 holding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		a door				for you	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme

Option 3

A glass of water at a friend's house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glass	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 house	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 friend	det
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 friend	case
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glass	nmod

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

Option 4

Passing the salt at dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 salt	det
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Passing	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dinner	case
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Passing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund		the salt		dinner			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent salt=Theme at dinner=Destination

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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