--- title: at mates house, can i check his big sisters room — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes… · tree and pragmatics description: at mates house, can i check his big sisters room Test 16 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places/t16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places/) / t16 # Test 16 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q… at mates house, can i check his big sisters room **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** i · **What happens:** check · **To what, where:** sisters room, mates house This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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/297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places/#t16). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t16:1 # text = at mates house, can i check his big sisters room 1 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 compound _ _ 11 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | can | i | his sisters room | | mates house | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | 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 {#o1} Yes, if she's out ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t16:o1:1 # text = Yes, if she's out 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | she | | | | | out *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} No, stay in the rooms you're invited into ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t16:o2:1 # text = No, stay in the rooms you're invited into 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 stay stay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 8 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 invited invite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | the rooms | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | | 2 | **invite** | present · passive | the rooms *not said here* | you | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yes, if you're careful ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t16:o3:1 # text = Yes, if you're careful 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | you | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yes, if your mate says it's fine ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t16:o4:1 # text = Yes, if your mate says it's fine 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | your mate | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | **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. 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