Test 12 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…

nan sent me a parcel, it came today

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan · What happens: send, come · To what, where: parcel, me

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 parcel	det
5	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
9	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	nan	a parcel	me				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination parcel=Theme
2	come	past	nan				today		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Let her know soon it arrived and that you liked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 arrived	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 arrived	nsubj
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 liked	cc
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 liked	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 liked	nsubj
10	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 arrived	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	her = she		tree rules
2	know	infinitive	her = she not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	arrive	past	it		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	like	past	you	it		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 2

No need, she knows the post works

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 need	det
2	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 works	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knows	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 need	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 post	det
7	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	obj
8	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	need	the post					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer post=Stimulus
2	work	present	no need						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Wait till you see her next year, she won't mind

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	_	4 see	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 mind	advcl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 year	nmod:poss
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mind	nsubj
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 mind	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mind	advmod
12	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	present	you	year	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not mind	future	she		vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Only say thanks if you like it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 say	advmod
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 like	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
6	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	thanks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic
2	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you	thanks					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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