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title: Your aunt in Florida tells Dad: "Send me your résumé." What does she… — Finding a job and getting on · tree and pragmatics
description: Your aunt in Florida tells Dad: "Send me your résumé." What does she want? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 3 «Finding a job and getting on» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Finding a job and getting on

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Your aunt in Florida tells Dad: "Send me your résumé." What does she want?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** aunt · **What happens:** tell, send, want · **To what, where:** Dad, résumé, aunt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 3 «Finding a job and getting on» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your aunt in Florida tells Dad: "Send me your résumé."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on:t10:1
# text = Your aunt in Florida tells Dad: "Send me your résumé."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	résumé	résumé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Your aunt in Florida |  | Dad |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **send** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your résumé | Your aunt in Florida *= aunt* |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination résumé=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does she want?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on:t10:2
# text = What does she want?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present · do-support | aunt |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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His payslip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on:t10:o1:1
# text = His payslip
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	payslip	payslip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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His CV, listing his jobs and skills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on:t10:o2:1
# text = His CV, listing his jobs and skills
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	CV	CV	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	listing	list	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **list** | gerund | His CV | CV's jobs and skills |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **job** |  | CV |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A photo of his office

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on:t10:o3:1
# text = A photo of his office
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A reference from his boss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on:t10:o4:1
# text = A reference from his boss
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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