Test 10 · ★ · Greeting neighbours and new people

new fam moved in next door, can we do something

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new fam · What happens: move, do · To what, where: new fam, next door, something

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 123 «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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 fam	amod
2	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 fam	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 door	amod
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fam	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	participle		new fam not said here		next door			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in door=Trajectory
2	do	can	new fam	something					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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

Watch them from the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Watch	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 window	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	them = they		the window			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Ask them to be quiet

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	to	to	PART	_	5 quiet	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 quiet	cop
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ask	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		them = they				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					quiet property	tree rules

Option 3

Wait until they come to you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 come	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	obl

#	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	come	present	they		you				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Take a card or some biscuits to welcome them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 card	det
3	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 biscuits	cc
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 biscuits	det
6	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 card	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 welcome	mark
8	welcome	welcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 welcome	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	a card or some biscuits					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme
2	welcome	to-infinitive	you not said here	card					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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