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Test 9 · Greeting adults and teachers

A new supply teacher looks nervous on her first morning. What helps most?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new supply teacher · What happens: look, help

This is test 9 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 new supply teacher looks nervous on her first morning.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 teacher	amod
3	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teacher	compound
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looks	nsubj
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looks	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 morning	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 morning	nmod:poss
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 morning	amod
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nervous	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a new supply teacher					nervous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 helps most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 helps	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Test her by breaking the rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Test	obj
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 breaking	mark
4	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Test	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rules	det
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 breaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	break	gerund	you not said here	the rules					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tell her the class does no work on Fridays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 work	det
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 Fridays	case
9	Fridays	Friday	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 work	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	present	the class	no work				on Fridays	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 3

Ignore her until the usual teacher returns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 returns	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 teacher	det
5	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 teacher	amod
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 returns	nsubj
7	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ignore	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	return	present	the usual teacher						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Greet her politely and behave well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Greet	obj
3	politely	politely	ADV	_	1 Greet	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 behave	cc
5	behave	behave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Greet	conj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 behave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	imperative	you not said here		her = she			politely property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	behave	infinitive	you not said here					well property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

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