Test 7 · Teams and voice chat
«captain keeps calling me useless». Best move?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: captain · What happens: keep, call · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 of lesson 405 «Teams and voice chat» 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: «captain keeps calling me useless».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 calling | obj |
| 6 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 calling | xcomp |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | present | captain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call in a quote | gerund | captain not said here | me | useless property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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.
Sentence 2: 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
Call him worse names
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Call | obj |
| 3 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 names | amod |
| 4 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Call | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme name=Result |
Option 2
Send him your password to be friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Send | obj |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 password | nmod:poss |
| 4 | password | password | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Send | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 friends | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 friends | cop |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Send | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | your password | him = he | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination password=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | you not said here | friends | tree rules |
Option 3
Keep quiet and keep playing for hours and hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 keep | cc |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 5 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 hours | case |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 playing | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hours | cc |
| 9 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hours | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | play | gerund | you not said here | hour | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Leave the game and tell an adult if it continues
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tell | cc |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Leave | conj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 adult | det |
| 7 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 continues | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 continues | nsubj |
| 10 | continues | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | the game | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | continue a condition, not said to happen | present | adult | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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