Test 11 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone

someone rang, asked is ur mum home, she's not

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, mum · What happens: ring, ask, be, not be · To what, where: mum

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 rang	nsubj
2	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rang	conj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mum	cop
6	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 mum	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 's	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 's	nsubj
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rang	parataxis
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 's	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ring	past	someone			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	ur's mum			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		ur's mum	home property	tree rules
4	not be	present	mum			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't say you're alone, say she can't come to the phone

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	ADV	_	3 say	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 phone	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 phone	det
15	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you		alone property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not come	can	she	the phone		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to phone=Initial_Location

Option 2

Give them 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	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 address	nmod:poss
4	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	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient address=Theme
2	address		your						nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Say yes, she's out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 out	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 yes	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 out	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 out	cop
6	out	out	ADV	_	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	she					out property	tree rules

Option 4

Tell them when she's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 back	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 back	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 back	cop
6	back	back	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	present	she					back property	tree rules

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