Test 3 · Greeting adults and teachers

Why do we greet the school cleaner as kindly as the principal, the head teacher?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: greet · To what, where: school cleaner

This is test 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 greet	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 greet	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 greet	nsubj
4	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cleaner	det
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cleaner	compound
7	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 greet	obj
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 kindly	advmod
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	4 greet	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 principal	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 principal	det
12	principal	principal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 greet	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 teacher	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 teacher	det
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 teacher	compound
16	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 principal	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 greet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present · do-support	we	the school cleaner				as the principal and the head teacher; kindly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent cleaner=Theme as principal=Attribute

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

Because the cleaner can give us detentions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 give	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cleaner	det
3	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	detentions	detention	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	can	the cleaner	detentions	us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient detention=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Every worker deserves the same respect, whatever the job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 worker	det
2	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deserves	nsubj
3	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 respect	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 respect	amod
6	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deserves	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 whatever	punct
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 deserves	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 job	det
10	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whatever	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	every worker	the same respect					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Because cleaners are always older than principals and need more care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 older	mark
2	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 older	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 older	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 older	advmod
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 principals	case
7	principals	principal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 older	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 need	cc
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 older	conj
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 care	amod
11	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	cleaners					than principals; always, old property	tree rules
2	need	present	cleaners not said here	more care					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme

Option 4

Because the principal does not like greetings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 like	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 principal	det
3	principal	principal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	the principal	greetings					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot greeting=Theme

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