Test 9 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

Why does a handwritten card mean more than a quick message?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: handwritten card · What happens: mean · To what, where: more

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 mean	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 card	det
4	handwritten	handwritten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 card	amod
5	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	nsubj
6	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 mean	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 message	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 message	det
10	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 message	amod
11	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	a handwritten card	more					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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

It takes effort and people keep 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	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keep	cc
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It	effort					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Theme
2	keep	present	people	effort					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

It is cheaper than a message

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	3 cheaper	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cheaper	cop
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 message	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 message	det
6	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					than a message; cheap property	tree rules

Option 3

It is much faster to write than a text

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 faster	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 faster	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 faster	advmod
4	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 write	mark
6	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 faster	advcl
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 text	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 text	det
9	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					fast property	tree rules
2	write	to-infinitive						than a text	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It arrives sooner

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	2 arrives	nsubj
2	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 arrives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	It					soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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