Test 21 · Greeting friends and relatives

kids at school said "Mr Brown n Miss Green walked in holding hands!"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, Miss Green · What happens: say, walk, hold · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 21 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 school	case
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kids	nmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 walked	punct
6	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Green	nmod:poss
7	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mr	flat
8	n	n	PART	_	6 Mr	case
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Green	compound
10	Green	Green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 walked	nsubj
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
12	in	in	SCONJ	_	13 holding	mark
13	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 walked	advcl
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 holding	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	kids at school		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	walk in a quote	past	Mr's Miss Green		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold in a quote	gerund	Mr's Miss Green not said here	hands	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

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

It means they are lost

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose	present · passive		they					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They may be a couple; that is their private business, so greet them normally

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 couple	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 couple	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 couple	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 couple	det
5	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 business	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 business	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 business	cop
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 business	nmod:poss
10	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 business	amod
11	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 couple	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 greet	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 greet	advmod
14	greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 business	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 greet	obj
16	normally	normally	ADV	_	14 greet	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	may	They	a couple			tree rules
2	is a	present	that	their private business			tree rules
3	greet speech: greet	infinitive			them = they	normally property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Ask them in front of the whole class whether they are going to get married soon

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 class	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 class	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 class	amod
8	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 front	nmod
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 going	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ask	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	15 married	mark
14	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 married	aux:pass
15	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 going	xcomp
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 married	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	them = they	front of the whole class		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	go	present · progressive	they				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	marry	to-infinitive · passive	they not said here			soon property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»

Option 4

Shout it in the corridor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shout	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 corridor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corridor	det
5	corridor	corridor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here	it		the corridor			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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