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title: Why does a handwritten card mean more than a quick message? — Phones, visiting friends, presents and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does a handwritten card mean more than a quick message? Test 9 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

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Why does a handwritten card mean more than a quick message?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** handwritten card · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** more

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t9:1
# text = Why does a handwritten card mean more than a quick message?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	handwritten	handwritten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | a handwritten card | more |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It takes effort and people keep it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t9:o1:1
# text = It takes effort and people keep it
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	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 | **take** | present | It | effort |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present | people | effort |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is cheaper than a message

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t9:o2:1
# text = It is cheaper than a message
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | than a message; cheap *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is much faster to write than a text

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t9:o3:1
# text = It is much faster to write than a text
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | than a text | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It arrives sooner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes:t9:o4:1
# text = It arrives sooner
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | It |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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