Test 3 · ★ · Phones and how a call travels

«someone on the video call i don't know keeps asking where i live» What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, you · What happens: not know, keep, ask, live, do · To what, where: video call · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 35 «Phones and how a call travels» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 keeps	punct
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 keeps	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 call	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 call	det
5	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	compound
6	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 someone	nmod
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 know	advmod
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 call	acl:relcl
11	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 keeps	xcomp
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 live	advmod
14	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 live	nsubj
15	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 asking	ccomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 keeps	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 do	obj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 keeps	ccomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not know in a quote	present · do-support	someone	the video call not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus
2	keep in a quote	present	someone		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	gerund	someone not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	live in a quote	present	someone		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	should	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Tell them, they seem friendly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seem	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seem	nsubj
5	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
6	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seem	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	seem	present	they					friendly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

End the call and tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	End	end	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 call	det
3	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 End	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 End	conj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	imperative	you not said here	the call					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality call=Eventuality
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

Option 3

Keep chatting and say nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	chatting	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 chatting	conj
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	chat speech: other	gerund	you not said here		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	you not said here	nothing	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 4

Ask them where they live first

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	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 live	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	advcl
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		them = they				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	live	present	they					first property	vn exist-47.1-1 «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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