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title: unknown number keeps calling me — Phones, visiting friends, presents and… · tree and pragmatics
description: unknown number keeps calling me Test 11 · ★ 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 11 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

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unknown number keeps calling me

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** unknown number · **What happens:** keep, call · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t11:1
# text = unknown number keeps calling me
1	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | unknown number |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | unknown number *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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Text them your address

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t11:o1:1
# text = Text them your address
1	Text	text	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **text** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **address** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Call it back straight away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t11:o2:1
# text = Call it back straight away
1	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Let a parent answer or ignore it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t11:o3:1
# text = Let a parent answer or ignore it
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | a parent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a parent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ignore** | infinitive | a parent *not said here* | parent |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Answer it and give them your full name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t11:o4:1
# text = Answer it and give them your full name
1	Answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your full name | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient name=Theme |
| 3 | **name** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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