Test 15 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone

phone rings, guy asks if mum's home (she's not)

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guy · What happens: ask · To what, where: home

This is test 15 · ★★ 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	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rings	compound
2	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asks	punct
4	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asks	nsubj
5	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rings	acl:relcl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 home	mark
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 home	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mum	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asks	xcomp
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 not	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 not	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 not	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 asks	ccomp
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 not	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	guy	mum's home					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient

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

Say she is out until late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 out	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 out	cop
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 Say	ccomp
5	until	until	ADP	_	6 late	case
6	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Say	obl

#	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 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say she cannot come to the phone and take a message

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 phone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 phone	det
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 take	cc
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 message	det
12	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not come	can	she		the phone	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to phone=Initial_Location
3	take	infinitive	she not said here	a message		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme

Option 3

Give him her work address so he can go and find her there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 address	nmod:poss
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 address	compound
5	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 go	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
11	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	obj
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	her work address	him = he		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient address=Theme
2	go	can	he				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	infinitive	you not said here	her = she		there	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
4	address		her = she				nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Tell him you are alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 alone	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 alone	cop
5	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp

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

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