Test 9 · Spending money online without asking
Dad's phone's at 5%, you wanna play. Dad's waiting for a call from work. Best move?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Dad · What happens: wanna, wait · To what, where: play
This is test 9 of lesson 362 «Spending money online without asking» 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: Dad's phone's at 5%, you wanna play.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 phone | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dad | case |
| 3 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 % | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 % | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 % | case |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 % | nummod |
| 7 | % | % | SYM | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanna | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 wanna | nsubj |
| 10 | wanna | wanna | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 % | acl:relcl |
| 11 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wanna | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 % | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wanna | present | you | play | tree rules |
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: Dad's waiting for a call from work.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiting | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 waiting | aux |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 call | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 call | det |
| 6 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiting | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 work | case |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waiting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · progressive | Dad | for a call from work | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: Best move?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 move | amod |
| 2 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 move | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Play with the sound off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 sound | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Play | obl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Play | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play off | imperative | you not said here | with the sound | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sound=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ask Dad first and leave it if he says no
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Ask | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 leave | cc |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ask | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | obj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 says | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | nsubj |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 says | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | Dad | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient | |||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | it | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | Dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Play on it until the battery dies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Play | obl |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 dies | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 battery | det |
| 6 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dies | nsubj |
| 7 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Play | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | imperative | you not said here | it | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | die | present | the battery | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 4
Turn on airplane mode
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 mode | case |
| 3 | airplane | airplane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mode | compound |
| 4 | mode | mode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | imperative | you not said here | airplane mode | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on mode=Trajectory |
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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