Exam question 2 · Greeting adults and teachers

Ascertain the appropriate greeting at a quarter past seven in the evening upon meeting a neighbour.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, meet · To what, where: appropriate greeting, quarter past, neighbour

This is exam question 2 of lesson 121 «Greeting adults and teachers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 greeting	det
3	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 greeting	amod
4	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 past	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 past	det
7	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 past	compound
8	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 past	flat
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 evening	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 evening	det
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
13	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	14 meeting	mark
14	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ascertain	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 neighbour	det
16	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meeting	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the appropriate greeting		a quarter past	evening		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Topic
2	meet	gerund	you not said here	a neighbour					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Co-Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

Good night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Good morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Good evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 evening	amod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Good afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 afternoon	amod
2	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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