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Test 5 · ★★★ · Cold parents: always on the phone

Lowri asked to play at 4, at 5 and at 6, and each time Mam was on a call. Her last call ends at 6.30. When is the smartest time to ask?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowri, time, last call, smartest time · What happens: ask, play, be, end, call · To what, where: 4, call, 6.30 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 495 «Cold parents: always on 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

Sentence 1: Lowri asked to play at 4, at 5 and at 6, and each time Mam was on a call.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lowri	Lowri	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 play	mark
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 4	case
6	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 play	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 5	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 5	case
9	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 asked	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 6	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 6	case
12	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 5	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 call	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 call	cc
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 call	nsubj
17	Mam	Mam	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 time	appos
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 call	cop
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 call	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 call	det
21	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Lowri						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	Lowri not said here			4			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	each time			a call			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: Her last call ends at 6.30.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 call	nmod:poss
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 call	amod
3	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ends	nsubj
4	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 6.30	case
6	6.30	6.30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ends	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	Lowri's last call			6.30			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	call		Lowri						nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Sentence 3: When is the smartest time to ask?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 When	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	smartest	smart	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 When	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 When	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the smartest time					when property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the smartest time not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Never, give up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 give	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Never	punct
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 give	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give up	imperative	you not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

At 4 again tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 4	case
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 4	advmod
4	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 4	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

During the next call

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	During	during	ADP	_	4 call	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 call	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 call	amod
4	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Just after 6.30

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 6.30	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 6.30	case
3	6.30	6.30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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