Test 11 · ★ · Gratitude, helping at home and privacy

bus driver dropped us at the stop, say anything?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bus driver · What happens: drop, say · To what, where: us, stop, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 102 «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 driver	compound
2	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dropped	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 stop	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stop	det
7	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	parataxis
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 say	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	bus driver	us		the stop			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme at stop=Destination
2	say speech: assert	infinitive		anything					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Say thank you to the driver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thank	compound
2	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 thank	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 driver	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 driver	det
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	thank speech: thank	present			you			to the driver	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2

Wave at him without a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wave	obl
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	imperative	you not said here					at him = he; without a word	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location

Option 3

Nothing, it is his job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 job	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 job	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 job	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 job	nmod:poss
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing	his job					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only thank him if he was early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 thank	advmod
2	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thank	obj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 early	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 early	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 early	cop
7	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thank	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	he					early property	tree rules

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