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description: Your friend calls at 10 p.m. to ask about homework. What would be better next time? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 128 «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 9 · ★★ · A guest at the table, and manners on the phone

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Your friend calls at 10 p.m. to ask about homework. What would be better next time?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** call, ask, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 128 «A guest at the table, and manners 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your friend calls at 10 p.m. to ask about homework.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone:t9:1
# text = Your friend calls at 10 p.m. to ask about homework.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	p.m.	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	homework	homework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Your friend |  |  |  |  | at 10 p.m. | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at p.m.=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Your friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about homework | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about homework=Topic |

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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 would be better next time?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone:t9:2
# text = What would be better next time?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  | time | good *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Call even later at night, when the parents are fast asleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone:t9:o1:1
# text = Call even later at night, when the parents are fast asleep
1	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | night | late *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the parents |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | tree rules |

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

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Call earlier, between about 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone:t9:o2:1
# text = Call earlier, between about 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.
1	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	parataxis	_	_
7	a.m.	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
10	p.m.	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Call at 6 a.m. instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone:t9:o3:1
# text = Call at 6 a.m. instead
1	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
4	a.m.	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at 6  a.m.; instead *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at 6=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Call five times so someone answers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:128-guest-at-the-table-and-the-phone:t9:o4:1
# text = Call five times so someone answers
1	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**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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