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Test 1 · Greeting adults and teachers

A girl in Texas is shy, and when her dad's friend greets her she stares at her shoes. What would be better?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, friend · What happens: be, greet, stare · To what, where: girl

This is test 1 of lesson 121 «Greeting adults and teachers» 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

Sentence 1: A girl in Texas is shy, and when her dad's friend greets her she stares at her shoes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shy	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shy	cop
6	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stares	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stares	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 greets	mark
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dad	nmod:poss
11	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 friend	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 dad	case
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 greets	nsubj
14	greets	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stares	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 greets	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stares	nsubj
17	stares	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shy	parataxis
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 shoes	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shoes	nmod:poss
20	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stares	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a girl in Texas					shy property	tree rules
2	greet speech: greet	present	girl's dad's friend		girl				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	stare	present	friend					at friend's shoes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme

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 would be better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 better	obl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 better	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Look up, smile and say "Hello" back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Look	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 smile	punct
4	smile	smile	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Hello	punct
8	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	6 say	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Hello	punct
10	back	back	ADV	_	6 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look up	imperative	you not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	smile	infinitive	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic

Option 2

Keep staring, because shy children need not answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answer	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 answer	mark
5	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 children	amod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 answer	nsubj
7	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answer	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 answer	advmod
9	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	stare	gerund	you not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	not answer speech: assert	present	shy children						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Walk away so she does not feel awkward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 feel	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 feel	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 feel	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 feel	advmod
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Walk	advcl
8	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not feel	present · do-support	she					awkward property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Let her dad say she is rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dad	compound
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rude	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rude	cop
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		her = she					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Let dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	she					rude property	tree rules

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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