Test 11 · ★ · Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places…

got a present in the post weeks ago, never said thanks

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get, not say · To what, where: present · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 324 «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities» 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	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 present	det
3	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 got	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 weeks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 weeks	det
6	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weeks	compound
7	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	1 got	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thanks	punct
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 said	advmod
11	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 thanks	amod
12	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		a present				said thanks obl; ago property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer present=Stimulus
2	not say speech: assert	participle							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Wait till Christmas and hope they've forgotten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	till	till	ADP	_	3 Christmas	case
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hope	cc
5	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Christmas	conj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forgotten	nsubj
7	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 forgotten	aux
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 hope	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				till Christmas and hope		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	forget	present · perfect	Christmas	hope not said here					tree rules

Option 2

Too late now, so just forget all about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 late	advmod
2	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 forget	advmod
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 late	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forget	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 forget	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 forget	advmod
7	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	ADV	_	7 forget	advmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forget	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	imperative	you not said here					about it; all, late property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Say thanks now, better late than never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Say	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 late	punct
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 late	advmod
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	parataxis
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 never	case
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	thanks			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic

Option 4

Send it back, cos it's awkward now anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Send	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Send	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 awkward	punct
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 awkward	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 awkward	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 awkward	cop
8	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Send	parataxis
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Send	advmod
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send back	imperative	you not said here	it			now	anyway property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	it					awkward 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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