Test 16 · ★ · Queues, taking turns and interrupting

mum's on the phone, i need her NOW, sis cut her hand bad

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: i, sis · What happens: need, cut · To what, where: her, phone, hand

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 223 «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 on	obl
2	's	's	PART	_	1 mum	case
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 phone	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 phone	det
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 need	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 phone	punct
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 need	nsubj
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 need	obj
10	NOW	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 need	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct
12	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	nsubj
13	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obj
16	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cut	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	i	her = she		the phone	now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
2	cut	past	sis	sis's hand				bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hand=Product

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

Interrupt straight away, an injury is urgent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Interrupt	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 away	advmod
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Interrupt	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 urgent	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 injury	det
6	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 urgent	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 urgent	cop
8	urgent	urgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Interrupt	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	interrupt	imperative	you not said here					away property	tree rules
2	is	present	a injury					urgent property	tree rules

Option 2

Text her instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Text	text	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Text	iobj
3	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Text	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	text	imperative	you not said here		her = she			instead property	tree rules

Option 3

Write her a note

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Write	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 note	det
4	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here	a note	her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient note=Topic

Option 4

Wait till she's done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 done	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	present · passive	she						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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