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Test 3 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…

A boy in Texas got money from his uncle and sent nothing back for three months. What would have been better?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: get, send back, be · To what, where: money, nothing

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Texas got money from his uncle and sent nothing back for three months.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 uncle	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 uncle	nmod:poss
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sent	cc
11	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 sent	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 sent	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 months	case
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 months	nummod
16	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sent	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	a boy in Texas	money				from boy's uncle	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from uncle=Source
2	send back	past	a boy in Texas not said here	nothing			month		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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.

Sentence 2: What would have been better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 better	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 What	amod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A thank-you note within a week or two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 note	det
2	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 note	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 thank	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 note	compound
5	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	within	within	ADP	_	8 week	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 note	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 two	cc
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 week	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Asking for more next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 time	case
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 time	amod
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund					time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Spending it straight away and saying nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spending	obj
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Spending	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saying	cc
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Spending	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 saying	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 saying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	gerund		it				away property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
2	say speech: assert	gerund		nothing		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 4

Waiting until his uncle asked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 asked	csubj
2	until	until	ADP	_	4 uncle	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 uncle	nmod:poss
4	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Waiting	obl
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund					until his uncle		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	Waiting						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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