Test 19 · Greeting friends and relatives

at the wedding auntie whispered "that's his second wife, the first one left"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that · What happens: whisper, be · To what, where: wedding auntie, second wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 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	at	at	ADP	_	4 auntie	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 auntie	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 auntie	compound
4	auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whispered	obl
5	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 wife	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 wife	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wife	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 wife	amod
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whispered	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 left	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 left	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	compound
16	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wife	conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 wife	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past				the wedding auntie			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at auntie=Location
2	is a in a quote	present	that	his second wife and the first one left					tree rules

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

Ignore his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	his wife					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme

Option 2

Ask him why she left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obj
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 left	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave	past	she						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Go and tell his new wife all about the first wife, so that she knows the whole story too

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 tell	cc
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wife	amod
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
7	all	all	ADV	_	11 wife	advmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 wife	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wife	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 wife	amod
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knows	punct
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 knows	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knows	nsubj
16	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 story	amod
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knows	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	16 knows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		his new wife	about the first wife	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient about wife=Topic
3	know	present	wife	the whole story			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was married before and it ended; that's their business, so greet his wife politely

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 married	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	aux:pass
3	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	before	before	ADV	_	3 married	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ended	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ended	nsubj
7	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 business	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 business	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 business	cop
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 business	nmod:poss
12	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 married	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 greet	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 greet	advmod
15	greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 business	parataxis
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 greet	obj
18	politely	politely	ADV	_	15 greet	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		He		before property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	end	past	it				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a	present	that	their business			tree rules
4	greet speech: greet	infinitive			his wife	politely property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme

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