Mum isn't expecting a parcel but the text says "£1.45 or it goes back!" Her mate says "just pay, it's tiny." What's the real danger?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum, text, mate, real danger · What happens: not expect, say, go back, pay, be · To what, where: parcel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «Scams: free V-Bucks, fake giveaways, phishing texts» of the money 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: Mum isn't expecting a parcel but the text says "£1.45 or it goes back!"
vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parcel=Theme
2
sayspeech: express
present
the text
vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent £=Topic
3
go backin a quote
present
text
vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
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.
vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scammer=Theme
2
take
present
details = detail
more
vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
3
detail
her = she
nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
Option 4
The parcel will be sent to the wrong house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
The
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
2 parcel
det
2
parcel
parcel
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 sent
nsubj:pass
3
will
will
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
5 sent
aux
4
be
be
AUX
VerbForm=Inf
5 sent
aux:pass
5
sent
send
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
root
root
6
to
to
ADP
_
9 house
case
7
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
9 house
det
8
wrong
wrong
ADJ
Degree=Pos
9 house
amod
9
house
house
NOUN
Number=Sing
5 sent
obl
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
send
future · passive
the parcel
the wrong house
vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to house=Destination
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.