--- title: «captain keeps calling me useless». Best move? — Teams and voice chat · tree and pragmatics description: «captain keeps calling me useless». Best move? Test 7 of lesson 405 «Teams and voice chat» 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/405-teams-and-voice-chat/t7/) [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/) / [Teams and voice chat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/405-teams-and-voice-chat/) / t7 # Test 7 · Teams and voice chat «captain keeps calling me useless». Best move? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** captain · **What happens:** keep, call · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 of lesson 405 «Teams and voice chat» 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/405-teams-and-voice-chat/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* «captain keeps calling me useless». ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:405-teams-and-voice-chat:t7:1 # text = «captain keeps calling me useless». 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 xcomp _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | captain | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** *in a quote* | gerund | captain *not said here* | | me | | | useless *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | 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. *Sentence 2:* Best move? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:405-teams-and-voice-chat:t7:2 # text = Best move? 1 Best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Call him worse names ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:405-teams-and-voice-chat:t7:o1:1 # text = Call him worse names 1 Call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme name=Result | ### Option 2 {#o2} Send him your password to be friends ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:405-teams-and-voice-chat:t7:o2:1 # text = Send him your password to be friends 1 Send send VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 password password NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | your password | him *= he* | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination password=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | friends | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Keep quiet and keep playing for hours and hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:405-teams-and-voice-chat:t7:o3:1 # text = Keep quiet and keep playing for hours and hours 1 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **play** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Leave the game and tell an adult if it continues ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:405-teams-and-voice-chat:t7:o4:1 # text = Leave the game and tell an adult if it continues 1 Leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 continues continue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | the game | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 3 | **continue** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | adult | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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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