Test 13 · Greeting friends and relatives

auntie wants a kiss, i don't want to

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: auntie, i · What happens: want, not want · To what, where: kiss

This is test 13 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	auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kiss	det
4	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 want	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 want	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 want	advmod
9	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	9 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	auntie	a kiss					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kiss=Theme
2	not want	present · do-support	i						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Hide in the car until she leaves so she cannot ask again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 car	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 leaves	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leaves	nsubj
7	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	advcl
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 ask	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ask	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ask	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 ask	advmod
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hide	advcl
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	the car		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in car=Location
2	leave	present	she			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not ask speech: ask	can	she		again	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

You must always kiss family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 kiss	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kiss	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 kiss	advmod
4	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kiss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	must	You	family				always property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Co-Agent

Option 3

Shout no and run off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	1 Shout	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 run	cc
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	conj
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here	no					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic
2	run off	infinitive	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It's ok to offer a wave or high five instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ok	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ok	cop
3	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 offer	mark
5	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ok	csubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wave	det
7	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offer	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 five	cc
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 five	amod
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 wave	conj
11	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 offer	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					ok property	tree rules
2	offer	to-infinitive		a wave				instead property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wave=Theme

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