--- title: Count them: on a walkie-talkie game, Sam says 3 messages and Lee say… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: on a walkie-talkie game, Sam says 3 messages and Lee says 4, each ending with over. How many times is over said? 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How many times is over said? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Sam, Lee, each · **What happens:** count, say, end · **To what, where:** them, talkie game, 3 messages, 4, many times · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 35 «Phones and how a call travels» of the technology 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/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: on a walkie-talkie game, Sam says 3 messages and Lee says 4, each ending with over. ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t7:1 # text = Count them: on a walkie-talkie game, Sam says 3 messages and Lee says 4, each ending with over. 1 Count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 walkie walkie NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 talkie talkie NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 13 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 Lee Lee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 nsubj _ _ 21 ending end VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 over over ADV RB _ 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | a talkie game | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Sam | 3 messages | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent message=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Lee | 4 | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 4=Topic | | 4 | **end** | gerund | each | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with over=Subeventuality | 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:* How many times is over said? ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t7:2 # text = How many times is over said? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 over over ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | many times | | | | over *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} 12 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t7:o1:1 # text = 12 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t7:o2:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 7 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t7:o3:1 # text = 7 1 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} 4 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t7:o4:1 # text = 4 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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