Test 12 · Greeting friends and relatives

new kid sat alone at lunch, say hi?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new kid · What happens: sit, say · To what, where: lunch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 122 «Greeting friends and relatives» 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	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kid	amod
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 lunch	case
6	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	conj
9	hi	hi	INTJ	_	8 say	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	new kid			lunch		alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at lunch=Location
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	new kid not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hi=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 · ← Mova's choice

Only if a teacher tells you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 tells	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 tells	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	nsubj
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tells	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a teacher		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

Option 2

No, new kids always want to be left alone on their first day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 new	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kids	amod
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 want	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 left	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 left	aux:pass
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 want	xcomp
10	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 left	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 day	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 day	nmod:poss
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	new kids					always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	new kids not said here				day	alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»

Option 3

No, wait until they talk first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 wait	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 talk	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talk	nsubj
6	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	advcl
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	present	they					first property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, a kind hello can start a friendship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 start	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hello	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hello	amod
5	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 start	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 start	aux
7	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friendship	det
9	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	can	a kind hello	a friendship					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Eventuality

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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