Test 15 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…

unknown number calling, asks if my parents are home

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: parents · What happens: call, ask, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ 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	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 number	amod
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calling	compound
3	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 asks	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asks	punct
5	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 home	mark
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 home	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 home	cop
10	home	home	ADV	_	5 asks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	call	gerund			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	my parents	home 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

Give your address

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 address	nmod:poss
3	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	your address					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Theme
2	address		your						nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Ask who they are and have a chat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Ask	ccomp
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 who	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 who	cop
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 have	cc
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chat	det
8	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	they		tree rules
3	have	present	you not said here	a chat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient

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

Say they can't come to the phone and hang up, then tell them

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 phone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 phone	det
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hang	cc
10	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 hang	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not come	can	they		the phone		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to phone=Initial_Location
3	hang up	infinitive	they not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	them = they		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 4

Say no, you're alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Say	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 alone	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 alone	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 alone	cop
6	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					alone property	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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