Test 5 · ★ · Phones and how a call travels

«shut up I'm calling 999 cos my brother nicked my crisps» What is right about the emergency number?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, I, brother · What happens: shut up, call, nick, be · To what, where: 999, crisps · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 calling	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 calling	aux
6	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 shut	advcl
7	999	999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 calling	obj
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 nicked	mark
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nicked	nsubj
11	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 right	advcl
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 crisps	nmod:poss
13	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nicked	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 nicked	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 calling	advcl
18	about	about	ADP	_	21 number	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 number	det
20	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 number	compound
21	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 right	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	call in a quote	present · progressive	I	999		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient
3	nick in a quote	past	my brother	my crisps		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Patient
4	is	present			about the emergency number; right property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is fine after school hours

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	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 hours	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hours	compound
6	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					hour	fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is only for real emergencies

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	6 emergencies	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 emergencies	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 emergencies	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 emergencies	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 emergencies	amod
6	emergencies	emergency	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for real emergencies	tree rules

Option 3

It is fine for any family fight

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	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 fight	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 fight	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fight	compound
7	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						for any family fight; fine property	tree rules

Option 4

It is fine if he really nicked them

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	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 nicked	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nicked	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 nicked	advmod
7	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	nick a condition, not said to happen	past	he	them = they					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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