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Test 7 · ★ · Greeting neighbours and new people

A family with two small children moves in across the road in Arizona. Which is the kindest welcome?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: family · What happens: move in, be · To what, where: road, kindest welcome

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A family with two small children moves in across the road in Arizona.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moves	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 children	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 children	nummod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 children	amod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 family	nmod
7	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 moves	advmod
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moves	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Arizona	case
13	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 road	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 moves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move in	present	a family with two small children			the road in Arizona			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory

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.

Sentence 2: Which is the kindest welcome?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 welcome	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 welcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 welcome	det
4	kindest	kind	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 welcome	amod
5	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 welcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the kindest welcome					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Go over with your parents to say hello, maybe with a card

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	over	over	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 parents	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 parents	nmod:poss
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Go	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	advcl
8	hello	hello	INTJ	_	7 say	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 maybe	punct
10	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 card	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 card	det
13	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go over	imperative	you not said here					with your parents; over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here					with a card; maybe property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent hello=Theme with card=Manner

Option 2

Leave a note asking them to be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 note	det
3	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
4	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Leave	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asking	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 quiet	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 quiet	cop
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 asking	xcomp

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

Option 3

Tell other neighbours they look strange

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 neighbours	amod
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	obj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	other neighbours					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient clause=Topic
2	look	present	neighbours = neighbour					strange property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Wait at home until they come over and introduce themselves to you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 home	case
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
7	over	over	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 introduce	cc
9	introduce	introduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 introduce	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 introduce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
2	come over	present	they					over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	introduce	infinitive	you not said here	themselves = they	you				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to you=Co-Patient

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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