Test 18 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…

did u hear?? a girl answered a random number and told them she was home alone, "and then a car parked outside all night". lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, girl · What happens: hear, answer, tell, be, park · To what, where: random number, them, car · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	??	??	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 number	det
9	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 number	amod
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 home	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 home	cop
16	home	home	ADV	_	12 told	ccomp
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 home	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 home	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lesson	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 lesson	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 car	det
23	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lesson	compound
24	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 car	acl
25	outside	outside	ADP	_	27 night	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 night	det
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 parked	obl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 night	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 car	punct
30	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	conj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	answer speech: assert	past	a girl	a random number				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent number=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	past	a girl not said here		them = they			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	is	past	girl				alone, home property	tree rules
5	park in a quote	participle		a car not said here		night		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 a parent answer unknown numbers, or ignore them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 parent	det
3	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
5	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 numbers	amod
6	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 answer	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ignore	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 ignore	cc
9	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	a parent	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	infinitive	a parent not said here	unknown numbers	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent number=Eventuality
3	ignore	infinitive	you not said here	numbers = number	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Only answer if it's the daytime and you're bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 answer	advmod
2	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 daytime	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 daytime	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 daytime	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 daytime	det
7	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answer	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bored	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 bored	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bored	cop
11	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	it	the daytime		tree rules
3	is	present	you		bored property	tree rules

Option 3

Unknown callers are always friendly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 callers	amod
2	callers	caller	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 friendly	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 friendly	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 friendly	advmod
5	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Unknown callers					always, friendly property	tree rules

Option 4

Answer but don't say your name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Answer	conj
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not say speech: assert	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	your name	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
3	name		your		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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