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title: big sis on the phone in the hall, other handset's right there. Best… — Snooping on phones, diaries and letters · tree and pragmatics
description: big sis on the phone in the hall, other handset's right there. Best choice? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 357 «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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 6 · ★★★ · Snooping on phones, diaries and letters

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big sis on the phone in the hall, other handset's right there. Best choice?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 357 «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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/357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* big sis on the phone in the hall, other handset's right there.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes:t6:1
# text = big sis on the phone in the hall, other handset's right there.
1	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sis	sis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	handset	handset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	right	right	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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*Sentence 2:* Best choice?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes:t6:2
# text = Best choice?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Record it so you can listen later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes:t6:o1:1
# text = Record it so you can listen later
1	Record	record	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	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **listen** | can | you |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Listen in for just one minute only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes:t6:o2:1
# text = Listen in for just one minute only
1	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen in** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Leave it, her call is private

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes:t6:o3:1
# text = Leave it, her call is private
1	Leave	leave	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | her call |  |  |  |  | private *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pick it up very quietly so she won't hear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes:t6:o4:1
# text = Pick it up very quietly so she won't hear
1	Pick	pick	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	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | future | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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