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title: on a vid call w nan, gonna eat my noodles while we chat — Video calls and visiting a friend's ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: on a vid call w nan, gonna eat my noodles while we chat Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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 was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Video calls and visiting a friend's house

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on a vid call w nan, gonna eat my noodles while we chat

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** eat, chat · **To what, where:** noodles, w nan

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t10:1
# text = on a vid call w nan, gonna eat my noodles while we chat
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	vid	vid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	w	W	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	dep	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	noodles	noodle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	chat	chat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | my noodles |  | a w nan |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noodle=Patient |
| 2 | **chat** *speech: other* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Fine if they're not slurpy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t10:o1:1
# text = Fine if they're not slurpy
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	slurpy	slurpy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | they | slurpy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fine if you point the camera away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t10:o2:1
# text = Fine if you point the camera away
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point away** | present | you | the camera |  |  |  | away *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Better not eat; sit still and talk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t10:o3:1
# text = Better not eat; sit still and talk
1	Better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fine, eating shows you're relaxed and she likes seeing you eat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends:t10:o4:1
# text = Fine, eating shows you're relaxed and she likes seeing you eat
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | relaxed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **like** | present | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **see** *not said to happen* | gerund | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **eat** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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