Exam question 2 · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…

Identify the principal reason for which a thank-you message is sent when a present arrives by post.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, present · What happens: identify, send, arrive · To what, where: principal reason, thank message

This is exam question 2 of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

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

So the postal service may record its delivery

Option 2

So that a further present may be requested

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

So the giver knows it arrived and that it was liked

Option 4

So the parcel may be returned if unwanted

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