Test 15 · ★ · Covering up, false alarms and playing fair

lets prank call 911 for a laugh

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 277 «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 call	cop
2	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	compound
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	911	911	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 call	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 laugh	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 laugh	det
7	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						for a laugh; call 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 · ← Mova's choice

It's fine if you hang up fast before they answer

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 hang	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hang	nsubj
6	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 hang	compound:prt
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hang	advmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 answer	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answer	nsubj
11	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hang	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		fine property	tree rules
2	hang up a condition, not said to happen	present	you	fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	present	they		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It's fine if you call from a friend's phone instead

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 call	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 phone	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 phone	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 friend	case
11	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obl
12	instead	instead	ADV	_	6 call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	call a condition, not said to happen	present	you			a friend's phone		instead property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from phone=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it can stop help reaching someone in danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	obj
7	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 help	acl
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 reaching	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 danger	case
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reaching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	can	it	help					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality help=Eventuality
2	reach	gerund	help not said here	someone		danger			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent someone=Theme

Option 4

It's fine if nobody gets hurt and it's only a joke

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 hurt	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 hurt	nsubj:pass
6	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	aux:pass
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fine	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 joke	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 joke	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 joke	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 joke	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 joke	det
13	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hurt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			fine property	tree rules
2	hurt a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		nobody		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is a	present	it	a joke		tree rules

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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