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title: Which is good phone manners on a train? — Phones, visiting friends, presents and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is good phone manners on a train? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 222 «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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 1 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which is good phone manners on a train?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** good phone manners, train

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 222 «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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/222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t1:1
# text = Which is good phone manners on a train?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | good phone manners |  | a train |  |  | tree rules |

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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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A long video call on loudspeaker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t1:o1:1
# text = A long video call on loudspeaker
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	loudspeaker	loudspeaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Shouting so the other person hears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t1:o2:1
# text = Shouting so the other person hears
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | so the other person | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | present | Shouting |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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

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A short, quiet call

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t1:o3:1
# text = A short, quiet call
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Playing music during the call

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t1:o4:1
# text = Playing music during the call
1	Playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	during	during	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund |  | music |  |  | during the call |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme |

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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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