Test 1 · Dances of the world and dancing at parties

Your mate goes, "You can't join a wedding dance if you don't know the steps." What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, You, best answer · What happens: go, not join, not know, be · To what, where: wedding dance, steps

This is test 1 of lesson 30 «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» of the arts 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Your mate goes, "You can't join a wedding dance if you don't know the steps."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 join	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 join	punct
6	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 join	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 join	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 join	advmod
9	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 goes	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dance	det
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dance	compound
12	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 join	obj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 know	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 join	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 steps	det
19	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 know	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not join in a quote	can	You	a wedding dance	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient
3	not know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you	the steps	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus

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: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only members of the family are allowed to dance at a wedding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 members	advmod
2	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 family	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 family	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 members	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 allowed	aux:pass
7	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 dance	mark
9	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 allowed	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 wedding	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wedding	det
12	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		members of the family					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive	members of the family not said here			a wedding			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wedding=Location

Option 2

You must take dance lessons for at least a year before any wedding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lessons	compound
5	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 year	case
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 least	case
8	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 year	nmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 wedding	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 wedding	det
13	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	must	You	dance lessons		any wedding	year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme before wedding=Destination

Option 3

You have to watch from the side until you know every single step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 watch	mark
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watch	obl
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 know	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 watch	advcl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 step	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 step	amod
13	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	You			tree rules
2	watch	to-infinitive	You not said here		the side	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	know	present	you	every single step		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People will show you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 show	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	future	People		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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