--- title: Which is a good guest at a friend's house? — Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes… · tree and pragmatics description: Which is a good guest at a friend's house? Test 2 · ★ 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/t2/) [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/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q… Which is a good guest at a friend's house? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** good guest, house This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t2:1 # text = Which is a good guest at a friend's house? 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 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 guest guest NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | a good guest | | a friend's house | | | tree rules | 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} One who leaves the mess for the parents ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t2:o1:1 # text = One who leaves the mess for the parents 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mess mess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | present | One | the mess | | | | for the parents | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mess=Theme for parent=Recipient | ### Option 2 {#o2} One who opens the fridge without asking ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t2:o2:1 # text = One who opens the fridge without asking 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 without without SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | present | One | the fridge | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fridge=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | One *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} One who explores every room in the whole house ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t2:o3:1 # text = One who explores every room in the whole house 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 explores explore VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explore** | present | | every room | | the whole house | | | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent room=Location | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} One who stays in the invited rooms and helps tidy up ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places:t2:o4:1 # text = One who stays in the invited rooms and helps tidy up 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nsubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 invited invite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 tidy tidy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | present | One | | | the invited rooms | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | | 2 | **invite** | participle | | | | | | | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** | present | One *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **tidy up** | infinitive | One *not said here* | | | | | | 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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