Test 20 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…

kids are saying the girl who never sends thank-you cards is "spoilt and ungrateful". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, girl · What happens: say, not send, be, pass on · To what, where: thank cards, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 20 · ★ 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spoilt	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sends	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 sends	advmod
8	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 girl	acl:relcl
9	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cards	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 thank	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 thank	flat
12	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sends	obj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 spoilt	cop
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 spoilt	punct
15	spoilt	spoilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saying	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ungrateful	cc
17	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spoilt	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 spoilt	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pass	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	20 pass	compound:prt
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not send	present	the girl	thank cards		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	the girl		spoilt property	tree rules
4	be in a quote		the girl not said here			tree rules
5	pass on	infinitive	kids not said here	it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's unkind gossip; just remember to thank people yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 gossip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gossip	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gossip	cop
5	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gossip	amod
6	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 remember	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 remember	advmod
9	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 gossip	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 thank	mark
11	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 remember	xcomp
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thank	obj
13	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 thank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	it	unkind gossip		tree rules
2	remember	infinitive				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive		yourself	people	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, she is spoilt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 spoilt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spoilt	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spoilt	aux:pass
5	spoilt	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spoil	present · passive		she					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and tell her parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parents	nmod:poss
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her parents				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

Option 4

Yes, and stop giving her presents until she learns some manners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stop	cc
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 presents	nmod:poss
7	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 giving	obj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 learns	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learns	nsubj
10	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 manners	det
12	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 learns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	present			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	give	gerund		her presents	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme
3	learn	present	she	some manners	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Topic

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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