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title: Text: «hi mum new number broke my phone send £50 pls». What's the fa… — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics
description: Text: «hi mum new number broke my phone send £50 pls». What's the fastest check? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 451 «The check that settles it» 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.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · The check that settles it

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Text: «hi mum new number broke my phone send £50 pls». What's the fastest check?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mum, fastest check · **What happens:** break, send, be · **To what, where:** phone

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 451 «The check that settles it» 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/451-the-check-that-settles-it/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Text: «hi mum new number broke my phone send £50 pls».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it:t4:1
# text = Text: «hi mum new number broke my phone send £50 pls».
1	Text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	£	£	SYM	$	_	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	pls	pl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** *in a quote* | past | mum and new number | my phone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** *in a quote* | infinitive | mum and new number *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's the fastest check?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it:t4:2
# text = What's the fastest check?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the fastest check |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Send it, it's your child

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it:t4:o1:1
# text = Send it, it's your child
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Send £25 to be safe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it:t4:o2:1
# text = Send £25 to be safe
1	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Reply asking what happened and which hospital it is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it:t4:o3:1
# text = Reply asking what happened and which hospital it is
1	Reply	reply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	xcomp	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · progressive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **happen** | past |  | hospital |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Ring the old number or look for your kid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it:t4:o4:1
# text = Ring the old number or look for your kid
1	Ring	ring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | imperative | you *not said here* | the old number |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location number=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for your kid | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for kid=Theme |

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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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