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# Test 11 · ★ · Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places…

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got a present in the post weeks ago, never said thanks

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** get, not say · **To what, where:** present · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 324 «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities» 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/324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences:t11:1
# text = got a present in the post weeks ago, never said thanks
1	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  | a present |  |  |  | said thanks *obl*; ago *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer present=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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Wait till Christmas and hope they've forgotten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences:t11:o1:1
# text = Wait till Christmas and hope they've forgotten
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	till	till	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | till Christmas and hope |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | present · perfect | Christmas | hope *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Too late now, so just forget all about it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences:t11:o2:1
# text = Too late now, so just forget all about it
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about it; all, late *property* | tree rules |

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

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Say thanks now, better late than never

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences:t11:o3:1
# text = Say thanks now, better late than never
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | thanks |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Send it back, cos it's awkward now anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences:t11:o4:1
# text = Send it back, cos it's awkward now anyway
1	Send	send	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send back** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  | now | anyway *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | awkward *property* | tree rules |

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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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