Exam question 1 · Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world
State the qualities of a correctly executed handshake.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state, execute · To what, where: qualities
This is exam question 1 of lesson 124 «Handshakes, waves and greetings around the world» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 qualities | det |
| 3 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 handshake | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 handshake | det |
| 6 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 7 executed | advmod |
| 7 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 handshake | amod |
| 8 | handshake | handshake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 qualities | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the qualities of a executed handshake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent quality=Topic | ||||
| 2 | execute | participle | correctly property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
Very hard, for as long as can be held
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 hard | advmod |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 long | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hard | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 long | case |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 held | mark |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 held | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 held | aux:pass |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 long | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | can · passive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» |
Option 2
Limp and loose, for a single brief shake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Limp | limp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shake | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 loose | cc |
| 3 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Limp | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shake | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 shake | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shake | det |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shake | amod |
| 8 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shake | amod |
| 9 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Very gentle, with the fingertips only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 gentle | advmod |
| 2 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fingertips | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fingertips | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 fingertips | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fingertips | det |
| 6 | fingertips | fingertip | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 fingertips | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Firm but not hard, for two or three shakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 hard | cc |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hard | advmod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Firm | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shakes | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 shakes | case |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 shakes | nummod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 three | cc |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 two | conj |
| 10 | shakes | shake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Firm | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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