Test 15 · Taking care of your things and money

got a msg saying i won a free iphone, just need mum's card no.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: get, say, win, need · To what, where: msg, free iphone, card no. · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 of lesson 37 «Taking care of your things and money» 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 msg	det
3	msg	msg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 got	obj
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 got	advcl
5	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 won	nsubj
6	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 iphone	det
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 iphone	amod
9	iphone	iphone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 need	punct
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 need	advmod
12	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 got	conj
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 card	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 mum	case
15	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 no.	compound
16	no.	no.	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	12 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	past		a msg	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer msg=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	gerund			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	win	past	i	a free iphone	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iphone=Eventuality
4	need	present		card no.	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot no.=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

Send only half the number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 half	advmod
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 number	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 number	det
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Send	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	half number					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme

Option 2

Ask them nicely to prove it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 prove	mark
5	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prove	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		them = they			nicely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	prove not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Send it quickly before it runs out

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	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Send	advmod
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 runs	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 runs	nsubj
6	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Send	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 runs	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	it				quickly property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	run out	present	it						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is a scam, do not reply and show an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scam	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scam	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scam	det
4	scam	scam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reply	punct
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 reply	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 reply	advmod
8	reply	reply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 scam	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 show	cc
10	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 reply	conj
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 adult	det
12	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a scam		tree rules
2	not reply speech: assert	infinitive · do-support				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	show	infinitive			a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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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